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Agostina Segatori was born in the Italian city of Ancona.
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She is also known for running the Café du Tambourin in Paris. In 1860 she posed for Manet and in 1873 for Jean-Baptiste Corot. Little is known of her life until she met the Parisian painter Edward Dantan in 1873, with whom she lived in a stormy relationship until 1884.
Agostina Segatori had a child by Dantan, Jean-Pierre Segatori.
In 1874, she was depicted by Edward Dantan in the first work that he exhibited at the Salon, a wax medallion. During the summers of 1874, 1875 and 1877, Agostina Segatori posed many times for Dantan.
In 1884, Edward Dantan described his former mistress by the name of "Madame Segatori-Morière": it seems that Agostina Segatori had married a Mr. Morière. Agostina Segatori is not only known for being the mistress of Edward Dantan, she was the proprietress of the Café Tambourin, at 62 Boulevard de Clichy in Paris.
However Agostina Segatori was cited in two letters by the painter.
lieutenant seems that Vincent van Gogh and Agostina Segatori were very fond of each other, and she inspired the painter, who made two portraits of her and several nudes in oil. Agostina Segatori gave Vincent van Gogh"s first exhibition at her Café Tambourin. Their relationship quickly became stormy and they decided by mutual agreement to separate in July 1887.
After this separation, Agostina Segatori improperly retained works by Van Gogh in her Café.
Agostina Segatori died in Paris in 1910 after experiencing a number of setbacks including the loss of her Café. Segatori"s Café du Tambourin was originally located at 27 rue de Richelieu in Paris, before reopening at 62 Boulevard de Clichy.
Jules Chéret made a poster for the Cabaret at the reopening. The decor included works offered to her by Edward Dantan, but also featured those by Vincent van Gogh.
In 1887, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created a portrait of Vincent van Gogh at the Café.
Agostina was a famous model. In 1860, she posed for Manet, who painted her portrait known as The Italian. This work, now held in a private collection in New York, was sold by the merchant Alphonse Portier to Alexander Cassatt, brother of Mary Cassatt.
She then posed twice for the painter Jean-Baptiste Corot.
The first work is called The Picture of Agostina and the second the Bacchante with tambourines. She was also painted by Jean-Léon Gérômedical
Vincent van Gogh created two portraits of Agostina Segatori, one named The woman with the tambourine and the other the Italian.
