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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]
French: La Nuit étoilée
Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Year	1888
Catalogue	F474 JH1592
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.

Subject matter

The view is from the quay on the east side of the Rhône, into the knee of the river towards the western shore: coming down from the north, the Rhône turns to the right at this point to surround the rocks on which Arles is built. From the towers of Saint-Julien and Saint-Trophime at the left, the spectator follows the east bank up to the iron bridge connecting Arles to the suburb of Trinquetaille on the right, western bank. This implies a view from Place Lamartine towards the southwest. 43.682367°N 4.630287°E / 43.682367; 4.630287 Though, as noted below this is not consistent with the stars portrayed as the Plough in Ursa Major would not be visible in that direction.

Genesis

Van Gogh announced and described this composition in a letter to his brother Theo:

Included a small sketch of a 30 square canvas - in short the starry sky painted by night, actually under a gas jet. The sky is aquamarine, the water is royal blue, the ground is mauve. The town is blue and purple. The gas is yellow and the reflections are russet gold descending down to green-bronze. On the aquamarine field of the sky the Great Bear is a sparkling green and pink, whose discreet paleness contrasts with the brutal gold of the gas. Two colorful figurines of lovers in the foreground.[3]

In reality, the view depicted in the painting faces away from Ursa Major, which is to the north. The foreground indicates heavy rework, wet-in-wet, as soon as the first state was finished.[4] The letter sketches executed at this time probably are based on the original composition.

Colours of the night

The challenge of painting at night intrigued van Gogh. The vantage point he chose for Starry Night allowed him to capture the reflections of the gas lighting in Arles across the glimmering blue water of the Rhône. In the foreground, two lovers stroll by the banks of the river.

Depicting colour was of great importance to Vincent; in letters to his brother, Theo, he often described objects in his paintings in terms of colour. His night paintings, including Starry Night, emphasize the importance he placed on capturing the sparkling colors of the night sky and of the artificial lighting that was new to the era.

References

Sources

• Boime, Albert: Van Gogh's Starry Night: A History of Matter and a Matter of History . Arts Magazine. 59 (4): 86–103. (also available on CD-ROM: ISBN 3-634-23015-0 (German version))
• Dorn, Roland: Décoration: Vincent van Gogh's Werkreihe für das Gelbe Haus in Arles, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zürich & New York 1990 ISBN 3-487-09098-8 / ISSN 0175-9558

External links

• Media related to Starry Night Over the Rhone at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Sternennacht über der Rhone

Sternennacht über der Rhone (frz. Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône) ist ein Ölgemälde des niederländischen Malers Vincent van Gogh. Es wurde im September 1888 geschaffen und stellt das Ufer der Rhone in Arles bei Nacht dar. Das Gemälde stammt aus van Goghs Arles-Periode, wie auch einige andere bekannte Gemälde von ihm.

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- [en] Starry Night Over the Rhône

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[es] Noche estrellada sobre el Ródano

Noche estrellada sobre el Ródano (septiembre de 1888; en francés, Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône) es una de las pinturas de Vincent van Gogh de la ciudad de Arlés por la noche. Fue pintado en un lugar en la orilla del Ródano que estaba a solo dos minutos andando de la Casa Amarilla en la plaza Lamartine, que Van Gogh alquilaba en ese tiempo. El cielo nocturno y los efectos de luz en la noche proporcionaron el tema para algunas de sus pinturas más famosas, incluyendo Terraza de café por la noche (pintada a principios del mismo mes) y la tela posterior en Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, La noche estrellada.

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[fr] La Nuit étoilée (1888)

La Nuit étoilée[1],[2] est une huile sur toile de Vincent van Gogh, réalisée à la fin septembre 1888, représentant Arles la nuit, ville où le peintre vivait à l'époque.

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[it] Notte stellata sul Rodano

Notte stellata sul Rodano è un dipinto del pittore olandese Vincent van Gogh, realizzato nel 1888 e conservato al Musée d'Orsay di Parigi.

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[ru] Звёздная ночь над Роной

«Звёздная ночь над Роной» — одна из картин художника-постимпрессиониста Винсента Ван Гога, изображающих Арль; на сей раз — ночью. Хранится в музее д’Орсе, в Париже. Картина изображает место на реке в двух минутах ходьбы от Жёлтого дома на площади Ламартен, который Ван Гог арендовал некоторое время. Ночное небо и эффекты звёздного света и света фонарей роднят эту картину с иными шедеврами художника — «Ночной террасой кафе» (написанной за месяц до работы над «Звёздной ночью над Роной») и более поздней «Звёздной ночью».

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