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Café Terrace at Night is an 1888 oil painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, and, when first exhibited in 1891, was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening (Café, le soir). Van Gogh painted Café Terrace at Night in Arles, France, in mid-September 1888. The painting is not signed ...
In the first days of September 1888, Van Gogh sat up for three consecutive nights to paint the picture, sleeping during the day. [5] Van Gogh's Cafe Terrace at Night, showing outdoor tables, a street scene and the night sky, was painted in Arles at about the same time. It depicts a different cafe, a larger establishment on the Place du Forum. [2]
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Painted in 1875–76, the work portrays a woman and man [1] sitting side-by-side, drinking a glass of absinthe.They appear lethargic and lonely. [3] The man, wearing a hat, looks to the right off the edge of the canvas, while the woman, dressed more formally in fashionable dress and hat, stares vacantly downward.
The interconnectivity of the coffeehouse and virtually every aspect of the print trade were evidenced by the incorporation of printing, publishing, selling, and viewing of newspapers, pamphlets and books on the premises, most notably in the case of Dick's Coffee House, owned by Richard Pue; thus contributing to a culture of reading and ...
In the painting Van Gogh expressed his new impressions from southern France and the painting depicts a sidewalk cafe in Arles, then Café Terrace[citation needed] (now renamed to Café van Gogh.) In French, the "terrace" (terrasse) of a café simply denotes the outside area where patrons can sit.
Beginning in the early Renaissance, artists such as Giotto, Bosch, Uccello and others told stories with their painted works, sometimes evoking religious themes and sometimes depicting battles, myths, stories and scenes from history, using night-time as the setting.
Merry company is the term in art history for a painting, usually from the 17th century, showing a small group of people enjoying themselves, usually seated with drinks, and often music-making. These scenes are a very common type of genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque ; it is estimated that nearly two thirds of Dutch genre ...