Agostina Segatori In Le Tambourin

Title

Agostina Segatori In Le Tambourin

Artist

Eric Glaser

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

"Agostina Segatori in Le Tambourin"

Artist: Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Title: Agostina Segatori in Le Tambourin

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1888

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 55.5 cm (21.8 in); Width: 46.5 cm (18.3 in)

Collection: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Naples-born Agostina Segatori owned the café Le Tambourin on the Boulevard de Clichy in Paris. Van Gogh had a brief relationship with her. On the wall to the right is a Japanese print of two geisha girls. It was probably Van Gogh, who painted the café proprietor at the time of a sales exhibition of Japanese prints that he himself had organized. Van Gogh was fascinated by Japanese woodcuts (see letter to Theo van Gogh, 5 July 1888).

Agostini Segatori sits at a table whose top is shaped like a tambourine, as are the stool seats. The same stool design can be seen in Basket of pansies.

From the Van Gogh Museum:

Agostina Segatori was the owner of the Café du Tambourin. She had a brief relationship with Van Gogh. There is a glass of beer on the table, and Agostina holds a lit cigarette. The saucers under the glass on the table betray the fact that she is on her second beer. Drinking and smoking in a café was not appropriate for respectable ladies. That way of life was associated with artistic types and prostitutes.

Van Gogh had organized an exhibition at the café to sell his collection of Japanese prints. Japanese prints can be seen in the background of this portrait. He may have painted Agostina during the exhibition.

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture

This is a Google Art Project image, thank you Google!

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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