Café du Tambourin was a restaurant in

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Agostina Segatori Agostina Segatori (Ancona 1841–1910 Paris) was a famous model who posed for celebrated painters in Paris, France, such as Édouard Joseph Dantan, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Eugène Delacroix, Vincent van Gogh and Édoua ...

, it was first located at 27

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, and then in March 1885 reopened at 62

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. Famous painter,

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, made a poster for the Cabaret at the reopening. The Café had an original decor in which Segatori hung works given to her by Edward Dantan. Vincent van Gogh also decorated the café through a commercial agreement with Segatori. It was said that Van Gogh ate free in exchange for paintings of still lifes. The cafe was frequented by the friends of Dantan and Van Gogh. In 1887,

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the ...

created his 1887 portrait of Van Gogh at the Café du Tambourin. The café was also frequently visited by writers and

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s such as author Sophie de Juvigny.''Impressionnisme et son époque'' by Sophie de Juvigny The Café Tambourin was the location of Van Gogh's first exhibition in Paris, still lifes he exchanged with the owner for meals. In March 1887 Segatori and Van Gogh presented a collection of Japanese prints acquired by the artist. In July 1887, Van Gogh exhibited his works and those of his friends,

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Louis Anquetin Louis Émile Anquetin (26 January 1861 – 19 August 1932) was a French painter. Biography Anquetin was born in Étrépagny, France, and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. In 1882 he came to Paris and began studying art at Lé ...

and

Émile Bernard Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his nota ...

. At this exhibition, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin sold their work for the first time. Later, the Café du Tambourin became bankrupt, and was renamed the Cabaret de la Butte in 1893 and then the Cabaret des Quat'z'Arts at the end of the century.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cafe du Tambourin Coffeehouses and cafés in Paris 19th century in Paris Montmartre 1885 establishments in France