Excellent quality, quick shipping, and great customer service.

Vincent Van Gogh is my favorite artist of all time, and Starry Night is perhaps his greatest work in my eyes, though it is hard pick a favorite. This pen has quite the legacy to live up to in just being based on that painting. Mine is more reminiscent of Starry Night over the Rhône than it is of Starry Night; it's the lack of bright yellows and oranges. This is not an issue because it is still incredibly beautiful. I could wax on about how gorgeous the pen is, but the three stars looms over head.

My Van Gogh is a 1.1 Stub, and until about 2 hours ago it was a dry writing, irritating to use, **** of a pen. I bought this thing in 2018, and I've spent far to many days trying different inks, different ways of holding the pen, different pressures trying to get this thing to write. I adjusted the tines to be wider, narrower. I tried wetter inks, drier inks, and hand made mixtures. Nothing seemed to work. So tonight, February 13th, 2025, I finally grew the courage to pull the nib and feed out of the housing and give the feed an extremely thorough inspection. The ink channel in my feed was clogged, not with ink, but with a small chunk of ebonite. Having removed that, and done some very slight deepening of the channel, the pen now writes better than it ever has, and has propelled itself to being my second favorite writer after my pair of Lamy 2000s. So why 3 stars? For almost $300, this pen should have been writing like this out of the box. I'd be ok with the nib needing a small amount of tuning, but having to pull out the feed just to find a tiny chunk of ebonite clogging the feed up and slowing the ink flow significantly, no that's unacceptable. Homo Sapiens just fell off of Grail pen status because of this. I love this pen, but had it been writing like this from the get go, it'd be 5 stars all the way. I will likely never purchase a new Visconti ever again because of this.

I recently purchased this pen as a graduation gift for my daughter. She loved it -- it writes beautifully and choosing fountain over rollerball turned out to be perfect. It writes beautifully and the little bit of extra effort to fill it is actually a plus, and makes it seem a little more "fancy" :)

I absolutely am enamored by this pen. It writes like silk right out of the box. I had heard complaints that the colors of the pen are too muted, but I think they are true to Van Gogh's color palate for Starry Night. My favorite pen of my collection bar none!

Overall experience was excellent!! The customer service was very attentive to any needs I had and I highly appreciate company's such as this one! I will be obtaining more pens in the future! Thank you

I've never quite understood people's passion for fountain pens. Whenever I've heard people in the past discussing a "fountain pen collection", I just shrugged, and thought to myself, "I don't get it". I bought my first fountain pen. This one. Now I get it. The pen feels wonderful in my hands, writes smoothly and beautifully, and it's made writing fun again. I've received several compliments while using it.

I love this pen. Writes smoothly out of the box, beautiful in every way.

This was my first purchase of a Visconti fountain pen and I do love regularly using the pen. It was Matt Armstrong's (The Pen Habit's) very enthusiastic and early career review of this pen that got me interested in it. As for the pen, it is a fabulous and smooth steel nib pen. The artistic beauty of the pen just satisfies the visual senses. There is an everyday use for this pen in my world even when I have a nice arsenal of gold nibbled fountain pens to choose from. Early on, I had a minor hard-start issue with the pen but Ethan at Goulet Pens quickly identified the root cause and sent me a new nib that corrected the problem. For this, I am happy to rate the pen a five.

This Visconti pen really has something other brands pens have not. It Van Gogh inspired colours are nice and discreet with an undeniable touch of class but the best is also in the technologies. Magnetic closing. Magnetic cap-head that can be changed for natural stones. Articulated solid clip (this will NOT bend in horrible directions). Ponte Vechio bridge design for the clip (that's Visconti.) You want Italian design, there you have it at its best. Of course, the nib quality if worth this beautiful pen and it's soft and slides on paper giving you an incredibly calming feeling. Be sure to use the converter: I used Visconti cartridge and they deserve this pen, which really express its qualities with a good ink in its converter. This pen will make you write more than you thought you could!

This is a gorgeous pen that writes beautifully, and it has quickly turned into one of my favorites. I purchased a pen with the medium nib in order to better enjoy my wide variety of inks and it has not disappointed. I admit to having initial reservations only because I feared it might be too large for my hand (5'7' female), but I needn't have worried. It feels wonderful, writes like a dream, and looks stunning. I weighed the decision to purchase this for quite a while (teacher's salary, you know), but life is short and the joy this and my other beautiful pens (and inks! and paper!) have brought me is boundless. Highly recommended!

Great! Works beautifully and the grip is wonderful.

This is not an inexpensive pen but it is very well made, the design is stunning and it writes pleasantly. The beauty of the Van Gogh series lies in the fact that the design and the story behind it can inspire one to write. Overall I would recommend this pen to anyone who has an interest in the arts and wants an excellent pen at a reasonable price point.

The pen is beautiful and writes beautifully. The only thing I was disappointed about was the case. I thought it would have a replica of the painting on it but it didn't. Just a self portrait replica

I bought this pen last year and also the Van Gogh called ' 'Shoes'. I was so impressed with their beauty and I was anxious to try a Visconti. I'd heard how great they were. I had difficulty with them. They seemed to write weak and anemic. I wondered if there was some ink deprivation going on. What a disappointment! I had 'shoes' inked up with Diamine Terracotta and it was just terrible. I changed the ink on Starry night to DeAtramentus Indigo blue, and it now writes smoothly and beautifully wet. Just the way I like it. I then held my breath, hoping for the best, and put the same DeAtramentis ink in my other Visconti 'Shoes' and bingo! It writes nice and smoothly wet also. I've learned that these particular 2 Van Gogh pens like the DeAtramentis ink better. That's been my experience. I am so happy to learn that I hadn't wasted my money after all. I'm really enjoying them now, and look for excuses to write with them. I might try a third one? They are lovely pens.

I absolutely love this pen the colors are beyond beautiful and the pen writes wet and smooth. I could not be happier.

At first, I was a little disappointed in the material of manufacture, I thought for that price, even a medium price point, it would have been made of a little nicer base. I thought the appearance of the pen was very nice and unique. It was when I started to write with it that it really didn't matter what it was made of our how it looked. Anyone, who has not written with a Visconti nib, really just doesn't know what they are missing. I have about 10 pens now, the bulk of them are Lamy, I have one Montegrappa, all of these perform admirably, but pale in comparison to this pen. This pen glides across the paper like a Olympic figure skater. Smooth is an understatement.

Okay, I know this is a different pen than the Rembrandt, but I have to comment on it because it was because of the Rembrandt that I ended up with the Van Gogh. I went through two Rembrandts before I purchased the Van Gogh. My first Rembrandt had defect markings on the grip section so I returned it for another one. When the new came in it also had a defect. The metal part where the nib & feed unit **** into the pen came out of the pen body (see pic). I came to the realization that the Rembrandt wasn't for me. But because I loved the way the Visconti nibs write I still wanted a Visconti fountain pen, so I ended up purchasing the Van Gogh. I've had no problems thus far with the pen (knock on woood).

After much deliberation, I took the plunge and bought this pen. It is gorgeous, has a nice weight, and writes so smoothly. Only downside for me was the aesthetic which I know is a bit of a gamble as colouring of each pen is unique, but didn't think this would be too much of an issue as most of Starry Night pens I had seen online had a decent amount of blue shades (light to dark). The pen I received was predominately brown (a little disappointing for me as it made up over 75-80% of the colouring of the pen) with some flecks of yellow, and only a hint of blue. I guess this is one of the drawbacks of online purchasing online, sight unseen. Other than that, it is still a quality pen and I I do love writing with it! Thanks Goulet for the super speedy processing/postage and immaculate packaging (thanks Chris C!)

I was a little hesitant to spend so much money on a pen with a steel nib, but I'm really glad I got this. Not only is it a beautiful pen, but it's such a smooth writer. It just glides across the paper. I'm fairly new to the fountain pen world so my collection is not very large, and this is the first pen I have purchased that costs over $50 (my collection consists of a twsbi 580, a few Pilot Metros, a Lamy Al-star, Cross Bailey, and Kaweco Sport). The smoothness of this pen greatly exceeds all of those and, in my opinion, is well worth the money.

I absolutely love this pen. I purchased a medium nib. This pen is easily on par with my dark ages and london fog. The spring in the nib is not present, but it is like writing with silk. I have very large hands and the Van Goghs are not the largest pens in my collection but I find every excuse possible to write with it. I do recommend using it posted for big hands though. The ink flow is what you would expect from a Visconti. It is a very very wet writer. I use it with Diamine Shimmertastic inks as well as J. Herbin 1670s. If you are concerned with spending a lot for a steel nib/ converter pen, I completely understand. I had to think about this one for quite a while before I pulled the trigger on it. I can not believe I waited as long as I did. I now own 5 Van Goghs and 2 Rembrandts besides this one. If the price is a problem I would recommend starting with a Rembrandt and I can guarantee you'll be back for the Van Gogh. The Starry Night I received is primarily deep blue but has a beautiful splash of purple, yellow and white down the barrel. I didn't want to go too in depth about the aesthetics because each one is unique. I am very happy with the pallet of mine but I prefer the Irises.

This is a truly lovely instrument to behold, but, why oh why isn't it sold with a gold nib? For me, the steel nib it is sold with is just too stiff and so I've needed to replace it with a 14k nib.

I love this pen. It writes very smoothly