Jan Voerman sr. artwork • watercolour • drawing • for sale Bowl with 'La France' roses

The gleaming natural stone on which the bowl rests makes the roses appear almost weightless. In the late 1880s, Voerman began painting soft pink La France roses in watercolour. This soft pink tea rose was first cultivated around 1867 by the French grower Jean-Baptiste André Guillot (1827–1893), and during the 1867 World's Fair, it was chosen to bear the name 'La France.' Its beautiful shape, colour, profusion of blooms, and delightful fragrance made it, and remains, a beloved garden rose. 'He depicted the La France roses, so dear to him, with angularly curled petals and a full, fleshy center, in seventeenth-century glasses or flat bowls, highly stylized, in solid colors with as few shadows as possible,' says Anna Wagner.