White roses

White roses, painted in 1903 and held at the National Museum in Warsaw, represents the still-life strand of Ciągliński's practice alongside his portrait and landscape work. White flowers presented a specific pictorial challenge: their apparent simplicity masks significant tonal and chromatic complexity in different light conditions. White roses in particular carried cultural associations in Polish tradition—purity, mourning, and patriotic symbolism—though whether Ciągliński intended such associations or approached the subject as pure still life is unclear from the title alone.

White flowers require the painter to describe form primarily through shadow colour rather than local colour. Ciągliński would have used cool greys and blues in shadowed petals to give the blooms three-dimensional presence, while reserving the palest values for the most directly lit surfaces.