Vincent van Gogh · 1888
Café Terrace at Night
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Van Gogh's first painting featuring a starry sky — a glowing yellow café terrace under a star-flecked indigo night in Arles.
Up to 24 × 29.9 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Café Terrace at Night
A café's gas-lit terrace glows yellow-orange onto the cobbles of a narrow street while the sky above goes deep blue and fills with stars. A waiter in white moves between the tables, and a couple walks off into the dark. Van Gogh painted it in September 1888 in Arles, on the spot, at night, and wrote to his sister that he was pleased to have painted a night scene without using any black. It is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands. The café is still there on the Place du Forum, repainted yellow to match.
On a wall, this is the warmest of Van Gogh's night paintings. The dominant colors are the lamp-yellow and orange of the awning and wall against a sky of deep blue and violet, with green in the shutters and the tree and blue-gray cobbles. It suits a kitchen, a dining room, a home bar, an entryway, or a bedroom, and it fits bistro, farmhouse, mid-century, and warm-modern interiors. It is a tall image. We offer it up to the Large at 24 × 29.9 in, the size that makes the terrace feel like a place you could sit, and the Medium at 16 × 20 in works above a bar cart or a kitchen table.
Starry Night Over the Rhône was painted the same month and is its natural companion. The Night Café is the room inside, in much harsher colors, and The Starry Night is where the stars went next. More from Vincent van Gogh.
Printed in our studio from a public-domain photograph of the Kröller-Müller canvas, holding the yellows and blues where Van Gogh set them.
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.
All Vincent van Gogh prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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