Musée d’Orsay · 1888
Starry Night Over the Rhone
Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh paints gaslight and starlight as equally alive, turning an ordinary riverside evening into something that seems to move and glow.
Why it matters
Van Gogh paints gaslight and starlight as equally alive, turning an ordinary riverside evening into something that seems to move and glow.
Look closer
Follow the gas lamps' reflections rippling down into the water — that broken light is the real subject, not the sky.
Painted from life at night on the Rhône, months before his more famous Starry Night in Saint-Rémy.
Value context
ELYIO places this work in an indicative editorial context of €95–130 million.
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