Gertrude
Jekyll said of the old fashioned bush roses
these were the roses that so often appear in the pictures of the Dutch flower painters; and in more recent years it was these flowers, now old fashioned, but always adorable, that, amid all the thousands of more modern kinds, held the admiration and inspired some of the most beautiful work of Fantin-Latour, whose genius and sympathy enabled him to show on his canvases, not only their intrinsic beauty and dignity, but also a sympathetic suggestion of their relation to
human life and happiness
these were the roses that so often appear in the pictures of the Dutch flower painters; and in more recent years it was these flowers, now old fashioned, but always adorable, that, amid all the thousands of more modern kinds, held the admiration and inspired some of the most beautiful work of Fantin-Latour, whose genius and sympathy enabled him to show on his canvases, not only their intrinsic beauty and dignity, but also a sympathetic suggestion of their relation to
human life and happiness
Gertrude Jekyll
ha detto sulle rose vecchio stile a cespuglio
Queste erano le rose che così spesso
compaiono nei dipinti dei pittori olandesi, e in anni più recenti questo è il
fiore, ormai non più di moda, ma sempre adorabile, che, seppur tra le migliaia
di varietà moderne, ha mantenuto l’ammirazione ed ha ispirato alcuni dei più
belli capolavori di Fantin-Latour, il cui genio e la cui simpatia gli permise
di raffigurare nelle sue tele, non solo la loro intrinseca bellezza e dignità,
ma anche un simpatico suggerimento della sua relazione con
la vita umana e la felicità
la vita umana e la felicità