A new exhibition at Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles is now further illuminating the celebrated Rhône nightscape, which predates the painter’s most well-known composition, The Starry Night (1889).

It is now on show at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, just ten minutes’ walk from the river bank where it was painted. The picture represents the centrepiece of an ambitious exhibition, Van ...

Van Gogh’s drawing View of Arles on the River Rhône (May 1888) Credit: Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam Yet another artist, Léo Lellée, also drew a Rhône scene, some two decades later.

When the 34-year-old Van Gogh moved to Arles from Paris in early 1888 hoping to establish a community of ... The six established themselves in an Airbnb across the Rhone River from the old town, ...

I n February 1888, it took Vincent van Gogh 18 hours to reach Arles from Paris by train. Once there, he found a room at the Hotel Carrel just inside the city’s medieval walls and began to paint ...

Van Gogh, tired of the frenetic pace after living for two years in Paris, fled for France's Mediterranean coast, arriving in the Rhone River village of Arles by train on Feb. 20, 1888.