Basket of Roses is an oil-on-canvas painting by French painter Henri Fantin-Latour, executed in 1885.
[1] The painting was purchased by Armenian-British collector Calouste Gulbenkian at a Christie's sale in London on May 9, 1924, from the Colnaghi Gallery.
The representation of roses appears arranged of multiple ways in many of his still lifes.
This work shows on a monochrome background a basket occupying the whole composition, full of roses of different colors, rather in pale tones, white, pink or yellow.
Each flower is presented with its unique qualities, contrasting with the rectilinear dimensions of the basket.