Two open roses with five broad, deep pink petals and rings of golden stamens around a green center hang on a short, leafy stem, with a half-open flower and slim red buds above. The leaves are toothed, and the cut stem below is set with small thorns. Engraved lettering reads Rosa Pumila and Rosier d'Amour, with the painter's, printer's and engraver's credits beneath; an inventory number is written at lower right. Pierre-Joseph Redouté painted this rose for the second volume of Les Roses (1821), with text by Claude-Antoine Thory, and Bessin engraved it.

Thory describes a small shrub, a foot and a half tall, growing wild all over Germany, where it was called the Austrian rose, with flowers large for so small a plant. He calls it the original form of all the garden varieties of Rosa gallica. The rose was hardly known in France, and Redouté's model came from the garden of M. Le Dru, mayor of Fontenay-aux-Roses.

Thory adds that its roots spread so fast through sown fields that German farmers tried, in vain, to wipe it out. It is in the Médiathèque intercommunale Pau-Pyrénées in Pau.