Country Road in Provence by Night (Road with Cypress and Star), painted in May 1890, stands among the final works Vincent van Gogh completed during his stay at the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. This oil on canvas, now in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, encapsulates many of the artist’s recurring preoccupations in Provence—night skies, rural paths, and above all, the cypress tree, which Van Gogh described as “beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk.”
