At the age of 35, Vincent van Gogh seemed drawn to the Langlois Bridge in Arles, France. During his stay in Arles in 1888, he completed four oil paintings, one watercolor, and four drawings of the bridge. The Langlois Bridge was a drawbridge that crossed over the Arles to Bouc canal. It was one of…
Van Gogh painted The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, or Café Terrace at Night, in mid-September of 1888, and it has become one of his most successful works. Following a summer in which he had spent time painting in the fields surrounding Arles, Van Gogh began to experiment with painting en plein air…
In The Night Café we see the late night crowd at the Café de la Gare, an all night tavern run by Joseph-Michel Ginox and wife, Marie, located near Van Gogh’s Yellow House. It is one of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings and one of the best known from his time in Arles.
