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Roses
Vincent van Gogh · 1853–1890
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3 variations + a matched story print, every standard frame ratio. sRGB · up to 300 DPI · personal-use license.
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Sizes in the download
Print-ready files at every standard frame ratio below — the full image, nothing cropped:
The borderless master is sharp at 300 DPI up to about A4. Every ratio also prints big-wall at 150 DPI for a step-back view — up to about 36″ on the short side, so the 36×24″ reaches 54×36″.
The work
A hopeful farewell.
Van Gogh painted Roses in May 1890, during his last days as a patient at the Saint-Rémy asylum, as one of a small group of large flower still lifes — roses and irises — he made before leaving. He set the pale blooms against fresh green, the complementary pairing he returned to again and again, and worked the paint thick and fast.
Look closer
These roses were once pink.
The flowers read as white today, but they began as pink. Van Gogh used a fugitive red lake — an eosin-based pigment — that fades under light; scientists analysing this very canvas have confirmed the colour has drained away over more than a century. What survives is the ghost of his intended contrast: pink roses against green.
Why it matters
The paint was still wet when he left.
Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo that the canvases would take “a good month to dry.” He checked himself out of the asylum on 16 May 1890, and an attendant sent the pictures on after him. In 2015 this Roses was reunited with its three companion flower pieces for the first time since the artist's death.
The file & the facts
- Title
- Roses
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Year
- 1890
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original
- 71 × 90 cm
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Rights
- Open access · personal use
- File
- sRGB · JPEG · 150–300 DPI
