Café du Tambourin

Le Tambourin, including Café du Tambourin or Maison Segatori was a café in Paris. The existing in the second half of the 19th century premises developed within a few years become a popular meeting place for artists.

History

The café Le Tambourin was originally located in the Rue de Richelieu No. 27 ( 48 ° 51 ' 54 " N, 2 ° 20 ' 11 " O48.8649232.336424 ) near the Comédie Française in the Palais Royal in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. It was founded by the Italian Agostina Segatori who had previously worked for several years in Paris as a professional model for various painters. The name of the cafes is derived from the musical instrument tambourine, which served as a decoration of this restaurant in many ways. For example, had the trays that allow guests the drinks were served, the form of tambourines, as can be seen on a poster by Jules Chéret. Even the tabletops of the cafes were in the form of the musical instrument and the inn sign was also modeled on a tambourine. On the poster by Chéret the folkloric clothing is also shown that bare the owner and their employees. To emphasize the character of an Italian establishment that is Agostina Segatori had made this, inspired by the costumes of the Italian countryside Ciociaria, the homeland of their ancestors. To 1878, the painter Édouard Manet portrayed in the painting The Italian café- operator in the corresponding presentation.

In March 1885, Café opened at the new address. On the Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement No. 62 (48 ° 53 '0 " N, 2 ° 20' 5" O48.8833622.33468 ) the restaurant was now near the popular especially among contemporary artists of Montmartre. The most successful painters still little around soon came regularly in the Le Tambourin. Among them were Paul Gauguin, Norbert Goeneutte, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin and Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec. Many of them were often in financial distress and exchanged one at the hostess one of her paintings for a meal. Even the painters use the walls of the restaurant occasionally as an exhibition space.

Among the most famous guests of the café was Vincent van Gogh, who lived from 1888 until February 1886 March in Paris and briefly had a love relationship with Agostina Segatori. He organized at Le Tambourin 1887 an exhibition of Japanese Ukiyo -e woodcuts and put some of his floral still lifes from the café. In the same year he painted the picture in the Cafe du Tambourin Agostina Segatori on which the owner can be seen as a guest of the café. In addition to a typical café table with the Tamburindekoration can be seen on the wall of a Japanese image. Maybe it is a picture of Van Gogh that he had for Japanese model painted during his time in Paris.

Le Tambourin came a few years later into financial difficulties and had to cease operations. Shortly afterwards, at the same place the Cabaret de la Butte, and finally in December 1893 opened the theater of Quat'z'Arts, in the next to famous painters also met many great writers.