Renoir painted a vase of roses, which I know only from a book. His “Roses mousseuses” of 1890 (now in the Musee d’Orsay, Paris) has enchanted me from the first day I encountered it. I know it must be a thousand-fold more lovely seen in real life. I copy Renoir’s flowers every once in a while to reexperience their magic, to feel the full force of the enchantment.
This copy appears in a small Moleskin notebook, done with Uniball Signo gel pen.
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belles roses mousseuses, un mot étrange pour des roses.
I just looked it up. The site I looked at translate “mousseuses” as “sparkling.” Now I’m wondering how the painting got that title.
A French site offers these: écumeuse, écumante, baveuse 2 vaporeuse, pétillante, légère, éthérée [antonyme] massive
3 champagnisée, spumeuse.
Could it be something like “champagne roses”?
Perhaps is a variety of rose. Doing an image search, most the images were of Renoir’s painting. Noteably not Renoir, however, was this one that leads to a Rose Mousseuse:
http://www.univers-feerique.fr/article-contes-et-legendes-la-rose-mousseuse-par-h-a-guerber-49000959.html
Now I notice that the link is more than a picture of a rose, it’s a story — I hope a good story …. (not sure!)
Okay, now that I’ve read the story. (It wasn’t as hard as I thought!) I’m thinking it’s a mossy rose?
Still confused, but now I learn that Love has blue eyes.
You learn something new everyday.
tack!
belles rosor mousseuses, un flertalet av Etrange KNOPPAS des roses.thnaks till delning.
Google translate: thank you! belles roses sparkling uses, during most of Etrange BURGEON des roses.thnaks for sharing
Renoir’s blommor är mycket vackra.
Renoir’s flowers are very beautiful.
J’ai lu la légende de la rose mousseuse, interessant.
J’ai trouvé sur wikipedia l’explication plus scientifique:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosier_mousseux
facile a lire, dis moi si tu ne comprends pas.
je ne connaissais pas du tout ce nom pour ce genre de roses.
merci Aletha, la botaniste!
Ben, merci pour l’information plus scientifique!