Episode 3 of 6

Letter to Wil

When: 16 June 1889
Where: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Part of: Event of 1889: Vincent van Gogh paints The Starry Night at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

Van Gogh described the landscape in a letter to his sister Wil on 16 June 1889.

Van Gogh described the second of the two landscapes he mentions he was working on, in a letter to his sister Wil on 16 June 1889. This occurred shortly after the painting's creation in mid-June.

Sources

The Starry Night Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-06

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