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Title The Starry Night
Date 1889
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 73 × 92 cm (28.7 × 36.2 in)
Accession number 472.1941
References

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Catalogues raisonnés:

  • F612:  Jacob Baart de la Faille (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings., Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 612.
  • JH1731 :  Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no. 1731.
Source/Photographer From Google Art Project, artwork page, scaled down from highest zoom level, quality Photoshop 9

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