Starry Night Over the Rhône
1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Starry Night [1] (September 1888, French: La Nuit étoilée), commonly known as Starry Night Over the Rhône, is one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings of Arles at night. It was painted on the bank of the Rhône that was only a one or two-minute walk from the Yellow House on the Place Lamartine, which van Gogh was renting at the time. The night sky and the effects of light at night provided the subject for some of van Gogh's more famous paintings, including Café Terrace at Night (painted earlier the same month) and the June, 1889, canvas from Saint-Remy, The Starry Night.
Starry Night [1] | |
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French: La Nuit étoilée | |
Artist | Vincent van Gogh |
Year | 1888 |
Catalogue | |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 72.5 cm × 92 cm (28.5 in × 36.2 in) |
Location | Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
A sketch of the painting is included in a letter van Gogh sent to his friend Eugène Boch on 2 October 1888.[2]
Starry Night, which is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, was first exhibited in 1889 at Paris' annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants. It was shown together with van Gogh's Irises, which was added by Vincent's brother, Theo, although Vincent had proposed including one of his paintings from the public gardens in Arles.