Labels:bulletin board | daily | person | poster | reckoner | sky OCR: Starry Nigha over the Rione br Vincent van Gogh: painting that Van Gogh executed in Sentember 1888 fa gaslight- -streaked expanse of the Rhone beneath starry sky; a cauple strolls along the shoreline in the lower right In his letters Van Gogh described the cirrumstances in which the picture WAS produced: Sa far you have not told me whether you have read Bel. Awt'by Guy de Mau- passant and what in general you think of his talent now.I say this because the beginning of Bel Am happens ta be descri iption afa starlit night in Paris with the brightly light ed cafes af the Boulevard and that is approximately the same subject just painted" (Letter 543 "arn working an seven square size 30 canvases anc lastly a. studyf the Rhone -at the town lighted with gas reflected in the blue Over it the starry ...