Roses in a Vase — About This Work
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1890
About the Work
Renoir painted Roses in a Vase around 1890. The subject is modest and concentrated: seven roses gathered in a rounded green vase against a warm, softly worked background. Rather than building a narrative around the flowers, the painting gives colour, surface and the physical handling of paint centre stage.
The Cleveland Museum of Art describes a palette ranging through reds, pinks, warm whites and pale yellows. The roses are built with comparatively thick touches of paint, while the surrounding ground is handled more thinly and rapidly. That contrast gives the blooms a tangible presence without making the arrangement feel rigid or over-finished.
The picture belongs to the period in which Renoir continued to explore the possibilities opened by Impressionism while developing a more personal, increasingly tactile approach to paint. Here the compact scale and simple arrangement keep attention on the changing relationships between petals, leaves, vase and background, making the work intimate rather than decorative in scale.
The Work
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Title: Roses in a Vase
Date: c. 1890
Medium: Oil on fabric
Recorded dimensions: 34 × 25.5 cm
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1941.14
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 30 × 40 cm landscape frame.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access / CC0.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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