From which window did van Gogh paint the view for 'The Starry Night'?

The view for The Starry Night is identified with the east-facing window of Vincent van Gogh’s room at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The scene looks toward the countryside just before sunrise, although the finished painting also contains imaginative additions.

Van Gogh voluntarily entered the asylum in May 1889 after a period of severe mental illness. From his bedroom window, he could see an enclosed field, rolling hills, and the morning sky. He wrote to his brother Theo about watching the sun rise from that window and later mentioned seeing a large morning star.

The painting was not simply made outdoors at night. Van Gogh worked on it in his ground-floor studio during the day, using observations, sketches, and artistic invention. The village was imaginary, and the cypress tree and swirling sky were shaped for expressive effect rather than copied exactly.

The east-facing view was one of several related scenes Van Gogh painted during his stay. The Starry Night is the most famous and the only nocturnal version in that series.