Painting: Vase of Roses (Still Life: Pink Roses in A Vase)
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 36.875×29.125″
Year: 1890
In May 1889, Van Gogh voluntarily committed himself into an asylum in Saint-Remy. Before leaving the following year, he painted a decorative ensemble of four floral still lifes, two paintings of irises and two of roses. He felt that these pictures were proof that he was “cured”.
Painting: Roses and Lilies
Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 23.5×18″
Year: 1888
Fantin-Latour painted more than five hundred floral still lifes over the course of his career. Accounts of the artist’s working methods in the mid-1880s reveal that he would paint a piece of cardboard and his canvas the same neutral color. Once the paint had dried, he placed the cardboard behind his floral arrangement in order to have a clear sense of how best to represent shadows and highlights on his canvas.
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