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In Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses the audience can see Van Gogh's keen awareness of the interplay of color that he acquired over time, especially if one can imagine the original, deeper pink of the roses on the complementary green of the painting for dramatic and emotional effect. The choice of colors, and the manner in which they are painted ...
The Boquet family (surname also spelled as Bocquet and Bouquet) is a French family from Paris, several members of whom distinguished themselves in the 18th century in the arts, particularly painting and sculpture.
The town's name in literal translation is "Hill of roses". The rose is the national flower of England, a usage dating back to the English civil wars of the fifteenth century (later called Wars of the Roses), in which a red rose represented the House of Lancaster, and a white rose represented the House of York. [19]
The canvas depicts yellow, white, pink and red roses in a narrow glass vase on a wooden table. A small stem with a white rose and two pink buds are extended on the left. The background is dark green and textured. Some flowers seem to have been cut prematurely, while others are collapsing. [2]
Basket of Roses is an oil-on-canvas painting by French painter Henri Fantin-Latour, executed in 1885. It is part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum , in Lisbon . It measures 59 by 73.8 cm and is dated and signed Fantin 85 at the lower left.
A gouache painting by Payne, "Choosing The Red and White Roses in the Temple Garden" is in the collection of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. [4] The "Temple Gardens" of the title are the gardens of the Inner Temple in London. [5] [6]
Helleborus niger has proved easier to cross with other hellebore species. Crosses between it and H. argutifolius (formerly known as H. corsicus ) are called H. × nigercors . First made in 1931, the hybrid is a large, tough plant with white flowers flushed with green; they are said to be the best of all hellebores for cut flowers . [ 3 ]