梵高作品《玫瑰和甲虫》

作品简介 / INTRODUCTION

　　作品作者：文森特·梵高(Vincent Willem van Gogh)

　　作者国籍：荷兰

　　材质类型：布面油画

　　作品题材：花卉画

　　作品风格：后印象派

　　原作尺寸：33.5×24.5 CM

　　创作时间：1890年

　　收藏地点：Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands(荷兰阿姆斯特丹梵高美术馆)

　　The roses in this painting were originally pink, not white. You can still see a hint of pink here and there. The cause of the colour change is the gradual bleaching of a pigment used in the paint.

　　Sitting on a leaf at the bottom of the picture is an insect, depicted far more precisely that the rest of the picture. It is a rose chafer beetle (cetonia aurata), complete with the distinctive white stripes on its underbelly and barbs on its legs. Van Gogh hadsketchedthe beetle earlier and probably traced over his sketch when making this painting.