1888, Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (Starry Night Over the Rhone) -- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)
From the museum label: n April 1888, Vincent wrote to Émile Bernard that he wanted to paint a starry sky - a subject which preoccupied him for several months before he set to work on it. In September 1888, working by candlelight, he painted this view of Arles illuminated by gas lamps and the Great Bear glittering in the sky. In the foreground, a young couple conveys a romantic vision of love. A few months later, just after he had been committed to a psychiatric hospital, he painted another version in which the whirling trajectory of the stars reflects the infinity of the cosmos.
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1888, Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (Starry Night Over the Rhone) -- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)
From the museum label: n April 1888, Vincent wrote to Émile Bernard that he wanted to paint a starry sky - a subject which preoccupied him for several months before he set to work on it. In September 1888, working by candlelight, he painted this view of Arles illuminated by gas lamps and the Great Bear glittering in the sky. In the foreground, a young couple conveys a romantic vision of love. A few months later, just after he had been committed to a psychiatric hospital, he painted another version in which the whirling trajectory of the stars reflects the infinity of the cosmos.
Link to other van Gogh paintings