Bouquet of Flowers, worked in pastel around 1900–1905, shows Odilon Redon applying the soft, built-up layering characteristic of pastel to a floral subject rendered with the same chromatic intensity he brought to his symbolist imagery of the previous decades. The medium's inherent softness suits Redon's interest in dissolving hard contour in favor of atmosphere and color relationship. On paper, the pastel entered the collection through the gift of Mrs. George B. Post in 1956. Scion's advisory practice treats pastels of this period as requiring particular attention to framing, glazing, and light-exposure history, since the medium's fragility means that documented conservation and display conditions can materially affect a work's long-term condition and, in turn, its assessed value.