Starry Night Over the Rhône, 1888
Vincent van Gogh
Oil on canvas
Gaslight and stars doubled in the Rhône, painted under the open night.
Painted on the banks of the Rhône at Arles in 1888, van Gogh caught gaslight and stars doubling in the black river. It is the quieter, real-world cousin of his famous Starry Night — moody, romantic, and made for a darkened room.
What you're looking at
The constellation is identifiable: the Plough sits at the top left, painted where it actually stood. The gaslights on the far bank are laid on as thick blobs, and their reflections drop into the water as long vertical strokes rather than anything resembling ripples. Bottom right, a couple walks the near bank — small, easy to miss, and the reason the picture reads as companionable rather than lonely. Van Gogh worked at the riverside after dark to paint it, which is not a thing painters generally did.
On a Frame TV
About 5:4, close to square, so the clean crop takes sky off the top and river off the bottom and the doubled lights stop doubling. Matted file. It is one of the darkest works here — remarkable on a Frame in an unlit room at night, and close to a black rectangle in daylight.
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