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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
  • : Q5582
  • VIAF: 9854560
  • ISNI: 0000000120955689
  • ULAN: 500115588
  • LCCN: n79022935
  • NLA: 35130087
  • WorldCat
artist QS:P170,Q5582
Title
The Starry Night
title QS:P1476,en:"The Starry Night"
label QS:Len,"The Starry Night"
label QS:Les,"La noche estrellada"
label QS:Lmk,"Ѕвездена ноќ"
label QS:Lfr,"La Nuit étoilée"
label QS:Lar,"ليلة النُجُوم"
label QS:Lbr,"An Noz stergannek"
label QS:Lca,"La nit estelada"
label QS:Lzh,"星夜"
label QS:Lja,"星月夜"
label QS:Lfi,"Tähtikirkas yö"
label QS:Lbe-tarask,"Зорная ноч"
label QS:Lth,"คืนดาวเกลื่อนฟ้า (ฟาน ก็อกฮ์)"
label QS:Lro,"Noapte înstelată"
label QS:Lko,"별이 빛나는 밤"
label QS:Leo,"Stela nokto"
label QS:Laf,"Die Sterrenag"
label QS:Lru,"Звёздная ночь"
label QS:Lde,"Sternennacht"
label QS:Lfa,"شب پر ستاره"
label QS:Lhe,"ליל כוכבים"
label QS:Lit,"Notte stellata"
label QS:Lbg,"Звездна нощ"
label QS:Let,"Tähistaevas"
label QS:Lsv,"De sterrennacht"
label QS:Lhr,"Zvjezdana noć"
label QS:Lpt,"A Noite Estrelada"
label QS:Lpl,"Gwiaździsta noc"
label QS:Lnl,"De sterrennacht"
label QS:Leu,"Gau izartsua"
Object type painting 
Genre landscape art 
Date 1889
date QS:P571,+1889-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 73 cm (28.7 in); width: 92 cm (36.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,73U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,92U174728
institution QS:P195,Q188740
Accession number
472.1941
Place of creation Saint-Rémy-de-Provence 
Object history
  • 1941: in collection of Museum of Modern Art 
  • September 1889: in collection of Theo Van Gogh 
  • January 1891: in collection of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger 
  • 1938: in collection of Paul Rosenberg 
  • December 1900: in collection of Julien Leclercq 
  • July 1905: in collection of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger 
  • 1906: in collection of Georgette Petronella van Stolk 
  • 1901: in collection of Émile Schuffenecker 
  • December 1900: purchased by Julien Leclercq from Johanna van Gogh-Bonger 
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."
References

Online database:

  • Museum of Modern Art: online database: entry 79802
Authority file
  • : Q45585
  • VIAF: 176354386
  • LCCN: n2005026038
  • GND: 4209985-7
  • SUDOC: 030024366
  • BNF: 12152516w
  • WorldCat
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