Le tambourine

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Jules Chéret: poster for the Café Le Tambourin

Le Tambourin , also known as Café du Tambourin or Maison Segatori , was a café in Paris . The bar, which existed in the second half of the 19th century, developed into a popular meeting place for artists within a few years.

history

Édouard Manet: The Italian , around 1878

Café Le Tambourin was originally located at 27 Rue de Richelieu ( 48 ° 51 ′ 53.7 ″  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 11.1 ″  E ) not far from 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 as a professional model for various painters in Paris for several years . The name of the café is derived from the musical instrument tambourine , which was used in various ways to decorate the place. For example, the trays hadwith which the drinks were served to the guests, the shape of tambourines, as can be seen on a poster by Jules Chéret . The table tops of the café were also shaped like the musical instrument and the pub sign was also modeled on a tambourine. The folkloric clothing worn by the owner and her employees is also shown on the Chéret poster. In order to underline the character of an Italian restaurant, Agostina Segatori was inspired by the costumes of the Italian landscape Ciociaria , the home of her ancestors. Around 1878 the painter Édouard Manet portrayed the café owner in the painting Die Italienerin in a corresponding presentation.

In March 1885 the café opened at a new address. At 62 Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement ( 48 ° 53 ′ 0.1 ″  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 4.8 ″  E ) the restaurant was now close to Montmartre, which is particularly popular with contemporary artists . The mostly less successful painters in the area soon came regularly to Le Tambourin . They included Paul Gauguin , Norbert Goeneutte , Émile Bernard , Louis Anquetin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec . Many of them were often in financial distress and exchanged one of their pictures for a meal with the landlady. The painters also occasionally use the walls of the restaurant as exhibition space.

Vincent van Gogh: Agostina Segatori in the Café du Tambourin , 1887

Vincent van Gogh , who lived in Paris from March 1886 to February 1888 and briefly had a love affair with Agostina Segatori, was one of the café's most famous guests . He organized an exhibition of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints at Le Tambourin in 1887 and exhibited some of his floral still lifes in the café. In the same year he painted the picture Agostina Segatori in the Café du Tambourin , on which the owner can be seen as a guest of the café. In addition to a typical café table with the tambourine decoration, a Japanese motif can be seen on the wall. Possibly it is a picture of Van Gogh that he painted after a Japanese model during his time in Paris.

A few years later, Le Tambourin ran into financial difficulties and had to cease operations. Shortly afterwards, the Cabaret de la Butte opened in the same place and finally in December 1893 the Cabaret des Quat'z'Arts , where not only famous painters but also numerous important writers met.

literature

  • Ursula Bode: Paris - Belle Epoque 1880-1914 . Exhibition catalog Villa Hügel, Bongers, Recklinghausen, 1994, ISBN 3-7647-0444-6 .
  • Gérard-Georges Lemaire: Cafés d'autrefois . Plume, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-8411-0130-4 .
  • Sophie de Juvigny: Edouard Dantan . Somogy Ed. d'Art, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-85056-607-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. The café was called Le Tambourin . See http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let571/letter.html or Elaine Brody: Paris, the musical kaleidoscope, 1870-1925 , Robson, London 1988, p. 63; Michel Souvais: Moi, la Goulue de Toulouse-Lautrec: les mémoires de mon aïeule , Publibook, Paris 2008, p. 193; Uwe M. Schneede: Vincent van Gogh: Life and Work , Beck, Munich 2003, p. 35; Sophie de Juvigny: Edouard Dantan . Somogy Ed. d'Art, Paris 2002, p. 39.
  2. The term Café du Tambourin can be found numerous in Van Gogh literature, especially as part of the painting title Agostina Segatori in the Café du Tambourin , see for example Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger: Vincent van Gogh, all paintings , bags, Cologne 2006, Volume I, p. 205.
  3. The name Maison Segatori can be found on Jules Chéret's poster.
  4. Gérard-Georges Lemaire: Cafés d'autrefois , p. 40
  5. Note on van Gogh's exhibition at Le Tambourin - albeit with the wrong year 1885 - in Ursula Bode: Paris - Belle Epoque 1880 - 1914 , p. 80.