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''Road with Cypress and Star'' ((オランダ語:Cypres bij sterrennacht)), also known as ''Country Road in Provence by Night'', is an 1890 oil on canvas painting by Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. It is the last painting he made in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. The painting is part of the large van Gogh collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park at Otterlo in the Netherlands. ==Production and influences== ''Road with Cypress and Star'' was painted in May 1890. In an earlier letter to his brother Theo, van Gogh wrote that cypresses were "always occupying () thoughts" and that he found them "beautiful of line" and proportioned like an Egyptian obelisk. He had also intended on painting a nighttime view of the trees since his stay in Arles in 1888. Erickson suggests that the painting is influenced by the Christian allegory ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', visible in the prominent road and cypress tree. The painting is one of several in which van Gogh uses cypresses prominently, and — as in ''Road with Cypress and Star'' — many of the paintings depict trees that extend beyond the top of the canvas. After finishing the work, in June 1890 while at Auvers-sur-Oise, van Gogh wrote to his friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin that the painting's themes are similar to those of Gauguin's work ''Christ in the Garden of Olives''. The orientation of the night sky objects may have been influenced by a conjunction of heavenly bodies on 20 April 1890, when Mercury and Venus were at 3 degrees of separation and together had luminescence comparable to Sirius. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Road with Cypress and Star」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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