The view has been identified as the one from his bedroom window, facing east,[3][14][15][16] a view which Van Gogh painted variations of[3] no fewer than twenty-one times, including The Starry Night.[17] Through the iron-barred window, he wrote to his brother, Theo, around 23 May 1889, I can see an enclosed square of wheat . . . above which, in the morning, I watch the sun rise in all its glory