# Agostina Segatori in the Café du Tambourin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOGH, Vincent van]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 56 x 47 cm ## Commentary <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/database/glossary/note02.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=400'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">Catalogue numbers:</a> F 370, JH 1208. The Café du Tambourin in Montmartre was a favourite place of Parisian artists. Van Gogh painted the portrait of the café's owner, Agostina Segatori, who sat for van Gogh a few times. In fact the only nudes he ever painted in oil were of her. Agostina had <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/corot/corot161.html'\)" href="/html/c/corot/corot161.html">modelled for Corot,</a> too. In the present portrait we see her sitting at a table in the Tambourin that resembles the musical instrument that gave the café its name. The setting of this painting was plainly inspired by <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/degas/3/1970s\_64.html'\)" href="/html/d/degas/3/1970s\_64.html">Degas's Absinthe Drinkers.</a> But in taking his bearings from Degas, van Gogh was not so much out to record the hopeless solitude of one woman seeking solace in alcohol and a cigarette as to practice an Impressionist eye for a hazy, smoky atmosphere. Merging unclearly with the greenish background are a number of Japanese woodcuts on the wall paneling, doubtless from the collection of the van Gogh brothers. ## Related artworks - [A Cottage on the Heath and "The Protestant Barn"]() - [A Lane in the Public Garden at Arles]() - [A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul]() - [A Pair of Leather Clogs]() - [A Pair of Shoes]() - [A Pair of Shoes]() - [A Workman's Meal-Break]() - [Almond Tree in Blossom]() - [Apricot Trees in Blossom]() - [At Eternity's Gate \("Worn Out"\)]() - [Avenue of Plane Trees near Arles Station]() - [Avenue of Poplars in Autumn]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()