Painting
Café Terrace at Night
Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Show the style
Impressionism, Iron Architecture · chronological order 9 · movement: Post-Impressionism
Where to see it
Kröller-Müller Museum
Otterlo · Netherlands
Oil on canvas, 81 × 65 cm, painted in Arles in September 1888 in the Place du Forum. The gaslit terrace, the customers, a waiter, the cobbled street and a blue sky full of stars painted as yellow blobs. It hangs in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, in the Netherlands, which holds the second-largest Van Gogh collection in the world.
Van Gogh had been in Arles for seven months and was painting without a pause: in those months he also made the Sunflowers, The Yellow House and The Bedroom. This is the first time he painted the night outdoors, with the easel set up in the street.