Starry Night Over the Rhone

Starry Night (September 1888, French: La Nuit étoilée), commonly known as Starry Night Over the Rhône, is a Vincent van Gogh painting of the night sky in Arles. It was painted on the bank of the Rhône, only a one or two-minute walk from the Yellow House, which van Gogh was renting at the time. The night sky was the subject of some of van Gogh's most famous paintings, including Café Terrace at Night (painted earlier the same month) and the June 1889 canvas from Saint-Remy, and The Starry Night. A sketch of the painting is included in a letter van Gogh sent to his friend Eugène Boch on October 2, 1888. 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. Vincent's brother, Theo, had this work displayed with van Gogh's Irises, although Vincent himself had proposed one of his paintings from the public gardens in Arles.

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couple, mirror image, Ursa Major, Arles, Rhône, night