![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Night prowlers” can take refuge there when they have no money to pay for a lodging, or are too drunk to be taken in.' In the first days of September 1888, Van Gogh sat up for three consecutive nights to paint the picture, sleeping during the day. ![]() It is what they call here a “café de nuit” (they are fairly frequent here), staying open all night. 'Today I am probably going to begin on the interior of the café where I have a room, by gas light, in the evening. Towards the right, Van Gogh indicated a shop lighted as well, and some branches of the trees surrounding the place - but he omitted the remainders of the roman monumentsĪlready in August Van Gogh told his brother Theo: He looked south towards the artificially lighted terrace of the popular coffee house as well as into the enforced darkness of the rue leading up to the building structure far back comprising the town house (to the left, not pictured) and, beyond this structure, the tower of a former church (now Musée lapidaire). Still today, visitors of the site can take the place at the north eastern corner of the Place du Forum where the artist set up his easel. The cafe terrace, now Café Van Gogh, October 2003 The painting is not signed, but described and mentioned by the artist in his letters on various occasions - and, as well, there is a large pen drawing of the composition which originates from the artist's estate. Cafe Terrace at Night, also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, is an oil painting executed by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh on an industrially primed canvas of size 25 ( Toile de 25 figure ) in Arles ) in Arles, France ) in Arles, France, mid September 1888. ![]()
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