A dense cluster of long-stemmed burgundy roses fans out from a weathered brass urn-shaped vase set just left of center, some blooms drooping loosely to the sides and one stem reaching well past the rest to the right. Dark green stems and leaves anchor the deep oxblood and crimson petals, and the arrangement rests on a plain wooden tabletop.

Soft, warm, diffused light catches the shoulder of the vase, where thicker paint builds up its reflective highlights. Petals are blended in a painterly, impressionistic way, while heavy palette-knife impasto gives the mottled, plaster-like background and the brushwork on the vase a rich, tactile surface, for a moody, romantic, nostalgic feel.