Starry night over the rhone

1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh

This article is about the 1888 Van Gogh painting. For the 1889 Van Gogh painting on the same theme, see The Starry Night.

Starry night over the rhone

For other uses, see Starry Night (disambiguation).

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.

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 Mu