Roses

Currently on view

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, May-June 1889

oil on canvas, 33.5 cm x 24.5 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

The roses in this painting were originally pink, not white. You can still see a hint of pink here and there. The cause of the colour change is the gradual bleaching of a pigment used in the paint.

Sitting on a leaf at the bottom of the picture is an insect, depicted far more precisely that the rest of the picture. It is a rose chafer beetle (cetonia aurata), complete with the distinctive white stripes on its underbelly and barbs on its legs. Van Gogh had sketched the beetle earlier and probably traced over his sketch when making this painting.

F-number
F0749
JH-number
JH2012
Object number
s0187V1962
Dimensions
33.5 cm x 24.5 cm, 51.5 cm x 42.4 cm
Provenance
With his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after June 1889; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren, on 10 July 1962 to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Vincent van Gogh
Credits (obliged to state)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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