Bouquet of Roses (Bouquet de roses)
1900
Oil on canvas
28.3 × 23.2 cm (11.1 × 9.1 in)
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● On view now — Collection Gallery, Room 08, East Wall
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026
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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Bouquet of Roses is a good example of the continual slippage in Renoir's work between flower imagery and the female form. The painter once mentioned that a sketch of roses was "research of flesh-tones of a nude." At the bottom right of this picture is a small female face in profile, with the flesh painted in the same pinks and whites used for the flower petals.
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