Agostina Segatori
Agostina Segatori (* 1841 in Ancona , † 1910 in Paris ) was an Italian professional model and worked in Paris for several important painters in the second half of the 19th century. She then ran the artist bar Le Tambourin and was briefly the lover of Vincent van Gogh .
Life
It is unclear when Segatori, who was born in Ancona, Italy, moved to France. She probably moved to Paris when she was in her early twenties and was soon earning a living as a model. Mostly referred to as L'Italienne ( The Italian Woman ) in artistic circles, she posed for various painters, although it is not always clear which paintings she was the model for. For example, there are pictures by several painters from the 1860s with the title L'Italienne , but there is no evidence that Agostina Segatori was the model for this. One of the earliest known paintings with Agostina Segatori is the painting Agostina by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot from 1866 ( National Gallery of Art , Washington, DC). Presumably she was also a model for Corot for other pictures during this time ( e.g. for Zingara au tambour de basque , Louvre , Paris). The painter Jean-Léon Gérôme was one of the other artists she modeled .
From 1872 to 1884 Agostina Segatori had a relationship with the painter Édouard Joseph Dantan . Their son Jean-Pierre was born on October 6, 1873. Dantan, whose father's first name was also Jean-Pierre, did not officially recognize the child's paternity. Agostina Segatori gave the authorities in 1884 as a father a man by the name Morière, so that the son was named Jean-Pierre Segatori-Morière. He later entered a picture frame business and worked as a gilder. Dantan, who painted several portraits of the Segatori, also created some pictures of Jean-Pierre as a child ( Jean-Pierre en incroyable , Jean-Pierre en costume breton ).
After her career as a model, Agostina Segatori opened Café Le Tambourin at 27 rue de Richelieu. She ran the café as an Italian eatery and, like her employees, wore a folkloric costume, as it is known in the Ciociaria countryside , from which her ancestors the Segatori came. A poster for Jules Chéret's café shows a waitress in this style. Around 1878 Édouard Manet painted the owner Agostina Segatori also in an Italian costume ( Die Italienerin , private collection).
In 1885 the café moved to 62 Boulevard de Clichy. Here, in the immediate vicinity of the artists' quarter of Montmartre , the restaurant quickly developed into a popular meeting place for painters such as Paul Gauguin, Norbert Goeneutte, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec . Occasionally these painters displayed their work on the walls of the café. In 1887 Vincent van Gogh organized an exhibition of Japanese ukiyo-e woodcuts at Le Tambourin and in the same year exhibited a number of his floral still lifes in the restaurant. He had a temporary love affair with Agostina Segatori and he created several portraits of her. He painted her as a café guest in Agostina Segatori in the Café du Tambourin ( Van Gogh Museum , Amsterdam) and she presumably also sat as a model for the painting The Italian ( Musée d'Orsay , Paris). In addition, van Gogh created three nudes of his lover. The pictures Female Nude on a Bed ( Barnes Foundation , Philadelphia), Reclining Female Nude ( Kröller-Müller Museum , Otterlo) and Female Nude from the Back (private collection) are the only paintings with female nudes by Van Gogh.
A few years later, Café Le Tambourin ran into financial difficulties and Agostina Segatori had to sell the restaurant. She died in Paris in 1910.
Édouard Manet:
The Italian , around 1878
Vincent van Gogh:
Agostina Segatori in the Café du Tambourin , 1887
Vincent van Gogh:
The Italian , 1887
Vincent van Gogh:
Female Nude on a Bed , 1887
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literature
- Charles F. Stuckey, Juliet Wilson-Bareau : Edouard Manet . Exhibition catalog Fukuoka, Tokyo, Osaka, Art Life, Tokyo 1986.
- Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger: Vincent van Gogh, all paintings . Taschen, Cologne 1994, Volume I, ISBN 3-8228-0396-0 .
- Sophie de Juvigny: Edouard Dantan. Somogy Ed. d'Art, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-85056-607-1 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Segatori, Agostina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian model by various artists and cafe owner Paris |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ancona |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1910 |
| Place of death | Paris |