1820
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Cabbage Rose (Rosa Centifolia Simplex) is a 1820 by Pierre Joseph Redouté, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a single pink rose with a bright yellow center. The petals are soft and slightly curled at the edges. Green leaves grow along the stem, and two smaller buds sit nearby, waiting to bloom. The artist focused on tiny details like the texture of the petals and the veins in the leaves. This kind of careful attention to nature was very popular in its time. Next, check out the Romanticism movement to see how artists used flowers to show emotion.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (French pronunciation: , 10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from the Austrian Netherlands, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de…
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