The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
Café Terrace at Night
The first night sky he ever painted — and no black in it.
- Work
- Vincent van Gogh, Café Terrace at Night (Place du Forum, Arles)
- Artist / creator
- Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
- Origin & date
- Arles, September 1888
- Held by
- Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 30x40 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Van Gogh set up his easel in the square at Arles and painted through the night, outdoors, by gaslight — the first of his great night pictures. He was proud that it contained no black at all: the darkness is deep blue and violet, and against it the café’s awning blazes a sulphurous yellow that spills across the cobbles. Stars prick the sky above the rooftops, drawn as small flowers of light. A few figures sit at the tables; a waiter stands in the glow. It is warmth carved out of a vast blue dark, which is very nearly a definition of what a café is for.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
