Print by Vincent van Gogh - Starry night over the Rhone - 1888
Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night Over the Rhone
Year 1888 - oil on canvas cm 92 by 72.5
Preserved at: Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Vincent van Gogh painted the Starry Night over the Rhone while he was in Arles in southern France. We know the date on which he painted it, because van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo who made the picture on September 26 or 27.
Indeed, thanks to astrophysicists who have studied the position of the painted stars, it is thought that he worked on them around 10.30pm.
Vincent van Gogh, by painting the Starry Night over the Rhone, returns to the stars a poetic and emotional feeling during an era of scientific development and positivist philosophy that tended to reduce the stars to mere objects of scientific investigation.
The Starry Night over the Rhone it was liked by his brother Theo who sent it to the annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in September 1889, along with another painting by Vincent. Unfortunately, no one understood and appreciated the great art of Vincent van Gogh.
