Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night |
Artist | Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) | | Alternative names | Vincent Willem van Gogh | Description | Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker | Date of birth/death | 30 March 1853 | 29 July 1890 | Location of birth/death | Zundert | Auvers-sur-Oise | Work period | between circa 1880 and circa July 1890 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902 | Work location | Netherlands ( Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886 date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890) | Authority file | | artist QS:P170,Q5582 | |
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Object type | painting |
Genre | landscape painting |
Date | 1889 date QS:P571,+1889-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium | oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions | 73 × 92 cm (28.7 × 36.2 in) |
Collection | institution QS:P195,Q188740 |
Accession number | 472.1941 |
Place of creation | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence |
Object history | |
Notes | - Catalogues raisonnés:
- F612: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 612 .
- JH1731 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no. 1731.
- See also F1540 The Starry Night (drawing, same composition) and the preliminary studies F1541v Bird's-Eye View of the Village and F1730 Landscape with Cypresses (Hulsker p. 396).
- Letters
- Letter 782: to Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "At last I have a landscape with olive trees [probably F712], and also a new study of a starry sky."
- Letter 805: to Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889.. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "The olive trees with white cloud and background of mountains [F712], as well as the Moonrise and the Night effect – – These are exaggerations from the point of view of the arrangement, their lines are contorted like those of the ancient woodcuts."
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Source/Photographer | bgEuwDxel93-Pg — Google Arts & Culture |
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