Starry Night (Nuit Étoilée), ca. 1851
Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 32 in. (65.4 x 81.3 cm)
Purchase Leonard C. Hanna Jr, B.A. 1913, Fund
1961.22
Possibly painted shortly after he moved to Barbizon in 1849, and retouched by the artist some fifteen years later, Nuit Etoilée is one of Millet's most dramatic experiments in nocturnal landscape. The composition and evocative light effects bring to mind van Gogh's famous painting of the same title (Museum of Modern Art, New York). Van Gogh may have been influenced by this painting, which he might have seen in Paris in 1873–75; his admiration of Millet's work is well known.
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