Vase with flowers

In high slender glass vase three fresh flowers between drooping branches. A beetle on petal. With dark brown values, the hanging branches are outmoded from a dark gray background. Bright light from the front on the dark green-brown vase. Above bright brightly a fully developed pink rose, a little deeper in the ostrich on the right a rich in the sound held red rose next to strong blue flower with yellow dust threads. Signed at the bottom left: Lenbach, right below: Nachlass R. Begas.

source: heinemann.gnm.de/de/kunstwerk-6542.htm; Carl von Bertrab (Bearb.): Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Gemälde in der Sammlung Rudolf von Goldschmidt Rothschild. Frankfurt a.M. 1912.