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Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night    

Artist
Vincent van Gogh  (1853–
1890)       
Alternative Vincent Willem
names van Gogh
Description Dutch painter,
drawer and
printmaker
Date of 30 29 July
birth/death March 1890 
1853 
Location of Zundert Auvers-
birth/death sur-
Oise
Work between circa
period 1880 and circa
July 1890
Work Netherlands
location (Etten, The
Hague, Nuenen,
…, before 1886
),
Paris (1886–
1887), Arles
(1888–1889),
Saint-Rémy-de-
Provence
(1889–1890),
Auvers-sur-Oise
(1890)
Authority : Q5582
control
VIAF: 9854560

ISNI: 0000
0001 2095
5689

ULAN: 
500115588

LCCN: 
n79022935

NLA: 35130087

WorldCat

Title The Starry Night

Object type painting 

Genre landscape art 

Date 1889

Medium oil on canvas

Dimensions height: 73 cm (28.7 in); width:

92 cm (36.2 in)

Collection
Museum of Modern Art    

Native The
name Museum of
Modern Art
Parent New York
institution Art
Resources
Consortiu
m 
Location New York
City
Coordinates 40° 45′ 41.
76″ N,
73° 58′ 39.
36″ W
 

Established 7
November
1929 
Web page moma.or
g
Authority :
control Q188740

VIAF: 
1284602
24

ISNI: 
0000
0001
2308
2510

ULAN: 
5003036
09

LCCN: 
n7902128
1

Open
Library: 
OL38203
A

WorldCa
t

Accession number 472.1941

Place of creation Saint-Rémy-de-Provence 

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 control : Q45585

VIAF: 176354386

LCCN: n2005026038

GND: 4209985-7

SUDOC: 030024366

BNF: 12152516w WorldCat

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