On the terrace, there are little figures of people drinking. I was interrupted precisely by the work that a new painting of the outside of a café in the evening has been giving me these past few days. (F1519) Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection.Īfter finishing Café Terrace at Night, Van Gogh wrote a letter to his sister expressing his enthusiasm: Preparatory study for the painting, September 1888. The painting is currently at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands. Towards the right, Van Gogh indicated a lighted shop and some branches of the trees surrounding the place, but he omitted the remainders of the Roman monuments just beside this little shop. He looked south towards the artificially lit terrace of the popular coffee house, as well as into the enforced darkness of the rue du Palais which led up to a building structure (to the left, not pictured) and, beyond this structure, the tower of a former church which is now Musée Lapidaire. The site was refurbished in 19 to replicate van Gogh's painting.

Visitors to the site can stand at the north eastern corner of the Place du Forum, where the artist set up his easel. The painting is not signed, but described and mentioned by the artist in three letters.

Van Gogh painted Café Terrace at Night in Arles, France, in mid-September 1888. It is also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, and, when first exhibited in 1891, was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening ( Café, le soir). Café Terrace at Night is an 1888 oil painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh.

The letters of vincent van gogh