Starry Night Over the Rhone

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Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône (Starry Night Over the Rhone) by Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Musée d'Orsay
Rue de la Légion d'Honneur
Quartier Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2005

“Included a small sketch of a 30 square canvas - in short the starry sky painted by night, actually under a gas jet. The sky is aquamarine, the water is royal blue, the ground is mauve. The town is blue and purple. The gas is yellow and the reflections are russet gold descending down to green-bronze. On the aquamarine field of the sky the Great Bear is a sparkling green and pink, whose discreet paleness contrasts with the brutal gold of the gas. Two colourful figurines of lovers in the foreground.” (Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, Arles, 28 September 1888, van Gogh's Letters)