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'''Eugène Druet''' (26 June 1867 - 21 January 1916) was a French photographer and art dealer. '''Eugène Druet''' (26 June 1867 - 21 January 1916) was a French photographer and art dealer.


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After meeting Rodin in 1896,<ref name="INHA">{{in lang|fr}} After meeting Rodin in 1896,<ref name="INHA">{{in lang|fr}}
{{Lien web | url =http://www.inha.fr/IMG/pdf/numero17.pdf| titre = Revue ''Les Nouvelles de l´INHA'', n°17 | date =April 2004 | website =ihna.fr }}</ref> Druet produced several photographs of Rodin's sculptures and often acted as his official photographer. According to Hélène Pinet<ref name="H.Pinet INHA">{{in lang|fr}} {{Lien web | url =http://www.inha.fr/IMG/pdf/numero17.pdf| titre = Revue ''Les Nouvelles de l´INHA'', n°17 | date =April 2004 | publisher = Conservatrice chargée des collections de photographies du Musée Rodin | website =ihna.fr }}.</ref> it is unclear why Rodin chose Druet but he may simply have been impressed by the amateur photographs Druet showed him. They worked together until 1900, when they little by little grew apart, notably because Druet was almost never paid for his voluntary work for Rodin. 1900 also saw Rodin's major retrospective at the pavillon de l'Alma during the ]<ref>{{in lang|fr}} , on www.histoire-image.org.</ref> - it was almost entirely organised by Druet and included a section with 71 of his photographs.<ref name="INHA"/><ref></ref>. {{cite web|date=April 2004 |title=Revue ''Les Nouvelles de l´INHA'', n°17 |url=http://www.inha.fr/IMG/pdf/numero17.pdf |website=ihna.fr}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> Druet produced several photographs of Rodin's sculptures and often acted as his official photographer. According to Hélène Pinet<ref name="H.Pinet INHA">{{in lang|fr}} {{cite web|date=April 2004 |publisher=Conservatrice chargée des collections de photographies du Musée Rodin |title=Revue ''Les Nouvelles de l´INHA'', n°17 |url=http://www.inha.fr/IMG/pdf/numero17.pdf |website=ihna.fr}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->.</ref> it is unclear why Rodin chose Druet but he may simply have been impressed by the amateur photographs Druet showed him. They worked together until 1900, when they little by little grew apart, notably because Druet was almost never paid for his voluntary work for Rodin. 1900 also saw Rodin's major retrospective at the pavillon de l'Alma during the ]<ref>{{in lang|fr}} , on www.histoire-image.org.</ref> - it was almost entirely organised by Druet and included a section with 71 of his photographs.<ref name="INHA"/><ref></ref>.


] at the galerie E. Druet, 1907.]] ] at the galerie E. Druet, 1907.]]
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{{blockquote|on the other side of Paris, on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, was based the former restaurant owner and photographer Druet.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} ], ''L'Autobiographie d'Alice B. Toklas'', chapter 3, p.36, Édition L'Imaginaire, Gallimard, 2006.</ref> His rich clients included Russian ].<ref>.</ref> In 1908 he was made an ]. {{blockquote|on the other side of Paris, on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, was based the former restaurant owner and photographer Druet.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} ], ''L'Autobiographie d'Alice B. Toklas'', chapter 3, p.36, Édition L'Imaginaire, Gallimard, 2006.</ref> His rich clients included Russian ].<ref>.</ref> In 1908 he was made an ].


He continued to photograph art, especially paintings. He thus sold paintings and his own photographs in his gallery.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} on www.autochromes.culture.fr.</ref> This idea to sell reproductions of paintings which he was exhibiting allowed him to make extra profits.<ref name="INHA"/> ] wrote that the photographs at the galerie Druet "reproduce in a completely satisfactory way famous paintings from Leonardo da Vinci to Maurice Denis via Titian, Ingres, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cézanne".<ref>''Chroniques d'art'', 10 January 1911.</ref> he became recognised in art circles - for example, on 2 March 1913 he assisted in the major auction of works from the ''La peau de l'ours'' collection in rooms 7 and 8 of the ], where he acted as an expert alongside ].<ref name="Peau de l´Ours">{{in lang|fr}} {{Lien web | url =http://www.centaures.com/lapeaudelours.html| titre = Article : Quand on vendait ''la Peau de l´ours''| website =www.centaures.com }}.</ref> He continued to photograph art, especially paintings. He thus sold paintings and his own photographs in his gallery.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} on www.autochromes.culture.fr.</ref> This idea to sell reproductions of paintings which he was exhibiting allowed him to make extra profits.<ref name="INHA"/> ] wrote that the photographs at the galerie Druet "reproduce in a completely satisfactory way famous paintings from Leonardo da Vinci to Maurice Denis via Titian, Ingres, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cézanne".<ref>''Chroniques d'art'', 10 January 1911.</ref> he became recognised in art circles - for example, on 2 March 1913 he assisted in the major auction of works from the ''La peau de l'ours'' collection in rooms 7 and 8 of the ], where he acted as an expert alongside ].<ref name="Peau de l´Ours">{{in lang|fr}} {{cite web|title=Article : Quand on vendait ''la Peau de l´ours'' |url=http://www.centaures.com/lapeaudelours.html |website=www.centaures.com}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->.</ref>


]'', reproduction in the magazine '']'', photographed using the Druet process.]] ]'', reproduction in the magazine '']'', photographed using the Druet process.]]
Between 1903 and 1938 his gallery exhibited nearly 1300 artists,<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Pierre Sanchez, ''Les expositions de la galerie Eugène Druet : répertoire des artistes exposants et liste de leurs œuvres, 1903-1938'', preface by Dominique Vieville, Éditions L'Échelle de Jacob, 2009.</ref> including ], ], ]<ref>{{in lang|fr}} {{Pdf}} , du 15 septembre au 15 novembre 2010.</ref>, ],<ref name="Rysselberghe"> Between 1903 and 1938 his gallery exhibited nearly 1300 artists,<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Pierre Sanchez, ''Les expositions de la galerie Eugène Druet : répertoire des artistes exposants et liste de leurs œuvres, 1903-1938'', preface by Dominique Vieville, Éditions L'Échelle de Jacob, 2009.</ref> including ], ], ]<ref>{{in lang|fr}} {{Pdf}} , du 15 septembre au 15 novembre 2010.</ref>, ],<ref name="Rysselberghe">
{{Lien web | url =http://www.artnet.de/usernet/awc/awc_history_view.asp?aid=424842640&info_type_id=2| titre = Chronologie des expositions de Théo van Rysselberghe | website =www.artnet.de | consulté le = 11/01/2011}}</ref>, ]<ref name="Joconde_Liste"> sur la base de données Joconde.</ref> ],<ref>{{in lang|fr}} is marked "GALERIE DRUET 114 faub. St-Honoré, PARIS ; no. 36 32 ; Marquet Rue de Paris neige." on the top of its frame</ref> ], ], ], ],<ref>{{in lang|fr}} on www.artsetsocietes.org : E. Druet lent ''The Old Woman with the Rosary'' to the Armory Show exhibitition in New-York in ].</ref> ], ],<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Diana Wiegersma, ''Jules Cavaillès'', Jules Cavaillès Research Center, May 2007.</ref> ]<ref>{{in lang|fr}} ], « Expositions visitées : Galerie Druet », '']'', October 1932, p. 178</ref> and ]. {{cite web|access-date=11/01/2011 |title=Chronologie des expositions de Théo van Rysselberghe |url=http://www.artnet.de/usernet/awc/awc_history_view.asp?aid=424842640&info_type_id=2 |website=www.artnet.de}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>, ]<ref name="Joconde_Liste"> sur la base de données Joconde.</ref> ],<ref>{{in lang|fr}} is marked "GALERIE DRUET 114 faub. St-Honoré, PARIS ; no. 36 32 ; Marquet Rue de Paris neige." on the top of its frame</ref> ], ], ], ],<ref>{{in lang|fr}} on www.artsetsocietes.org : E. Druet lent ''The Old Woman with the Rosary'' to the Armory Show exhibitition in New-York in ].</ref> ], ],<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Diana Wiegersma, ''Jules Cavaillès'', Jules Cavaillès Research Center, May 2007.</ref> ]<ref>{{in lang|fr}} ], « Expositions visitées : Galerie Druet », '']'', October 1932, p. 178</ref> and ].


He died in Paris of brain congestion in 1916. after his death his wife ran the gallery until 1938, when it closed.<ref name="INHA"/> His archive of 30,000 plates were bought by ], himself a photographer of art and publisher.<ref name="INHA"/> He died in Paris of brain congestion in 1916. after his death his wife ran the gallery until 1938, when it closed.<ref name="INHA"/> His archive of 30,000 plates were bought by ], himself a photographer of art and publisher.<ref name="INHA"/>
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1912 portrait of Druet by Pierre Bonnard (musée Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en-Laye).

Eugène Druet (26 June 1867 - 21 January 1916) was a French photographer and art dealer.

Life

He was born at 206 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin in Paris to Eugène Alphonse Druet and Alphonine Augustine Herbinière, then grocers. He initially rented and ran Yacht Club français, a small family café at place de l'Alma (now avenue du Président-Wilson) which he bought in 1893.. Auguste Rodin, whose Dépôt des marbres studio at 182 rue de l'Université not far from Yacht Club français, regularly came to Druet's café and introduced him to the photography of art.

After meeting Rodin in 1896, Druet produced several photographs of Rodin's sculptures and often acted as his official photographer. According to Hélène Pinet it is unclear why Rodin chose Druet but he may simply have been impressed by the amateur photographs Druet showed him. They worked together until 1900, when they little by little grew apart, notably because Druet was almost never paid for his voluntary work for Rodin. 1900 also saw Rodin's major retrospective at the pavillon de l'Alma during the Exposition universelle - it was almost entirely organised by Druet and included a section with 71 of his photographs..

Invitation to the exhibition of drawings by André Rouveyre at the galerie E. Druet, 1907.

On Rodin's advice Druet abandoned his café to open an art gallery at 114 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in 1903, moving to 20 rue Royale in 1908. It soon became well-known and is mentioned in chapter three of Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas : {{blockquote|on the other side of Paris, on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, was based the former restaurant owner and photographer Druet. His rich clients included Russian Ivan Morozov. In 1908 he was made an Officier de l'Instruction publique.

He continued to photograph art, especially paintings. He thus sold paintings and his own photographs in his gallery. This idea to sell reproductions of paintings which he was exhibiting allowed him to make extra profits. Guillaume Apollinaire wrote that the photographs at the galerie Druet "reproduce in a completely satisfactory way famous paintings from Leonardo da Vinci to Maurice Denis via Titian, Ingres, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cézanne". he became recognised in art circles - for example, on 2 March 1913 he assisted in the major auction of works from the La peau de l'ours collection in rooms 7 and 8 of the hôtel Drouot, where he acted as an expert alongside Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune.

Apollo Sauroktonos, reproduction in the magazine Touche à tout, photographed using the Druet process.

Between 1903 and 1938 his gallery exhibited nearly 1300 artists, including Georges Manzana-Pissarro, Charles Camoin, Henri Manguin, Théo van Rysselberghe,, Odilon Redon Albert Marquet, Léon Lehmann, Maurice Denis, Jacqueline Marval, Paul Cézanne, Fernand Labat, Jules Cavaillès, Jean Fernand-Trochain and Maurice Georges Poncelet.

He died in Paris of brain congestion in 1916. after his death his wife ran the gallery until 1938, when it closed. His archive of 30,000 plates were bought by François Antoine Vizzavona, himself a photographer of art and publisher.

As a photographer

Druet used Lumière autochrome plates to produced some of his photographs. He mostly used the 9.12 cm formats, but also the 13.18 cm and 18.24 cm. His talent even gave his name to the Druet process.

Initially his production essentially consisted of photographs of Rodin's works from life. The art critic Claude Anet stated that they "not only reproduce all the delicacy of the model, the beauty of their plans and lines, but also the power of evoking the works themselves". Next he produced a series of photographs of Vincent van Gogh's paintings around the time they were starting to become famous (L'Arlésienne, Jardin à Auvers, Portrait du docteur Gachet). This series contributed to spreading knowledge of van Gogh's work. He also produced a series of photographs of the dancer Vaslav Nijinski on 19 June 1910 in the painter Jacques-Émile Blanche's garden.

In a 1908 issue of the Bulletin de la SFP a writer stated "Unlike a very large number of photographers, content with approximations without worrying about the accuracy of values, Monsieur Druet is always concerned with orthochromatism, thus achieving a fidelity of rendering vital in reproducing works of art".

Most of his photographs are preserved at the médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine at fort de Saint-Cyr as the Fonds Druet-Vizzavona, which holds around 150,000 photographic plates and is made up of Druet's collection (30,000 plates) and that of the Vizzanova family, which were merged in 1939.

Exhibitions of his work

  • 1900, Paris, pavillon de l'Alma, with works by Auguste Rodin, with a section for Druet's photographs.
  • 16 January 1994 to 6 March 1994, Licht und Schatten. Rodin-Photographien von Eugène Druet, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin.
  • 14 November 2007 to 2 March 2008, Rodin sous l'œil des photographes, musée Rodin, Paris.

Selected exhibitions at the galerie Druet

Dates Year(s) Artist(s) Notes
5-16 November 1903 Théo van Rysselberghe
November-December 1903 Maurice Denis, Paul Sérusier, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Armand Seguin, Maximilien Luce, Henri-Edmond Cross & Albert Clouard
22 November-10 December 1904 Maurice Denis Catalogue with a preface by André Gide
1905 Théo van Rysselberghe
January-February 1905 Berthe Morisot.
1906 Henri Matisse Major retrospective
18-30 November 1907 André Rouveyre Original drawings
25 October-6 November 1909 Vladislav Granzow
7-19 November 1910 André Lhote Paintings
27 February-12 March 1911 Théo van Rysselberghe Paintings
1912 Jacqueline Marval 44 paintings, including The Three Roses (1910)
December 1912 Henri Farge
1-13 December 1913 Jules Flandrin Paintings
1913 Spread of the catalogue for the La peau de l'ours sale, with 16 reproductions
26 January-7 February 1914 Raoul de Mathan
9-21 February 1914 Baignières, Desvallières, Dethomas, Dufrénoy, Jules Flandrin, Charles Guérin, Marque, Rouault and Jacqueline Marval
5-27 March 1917 Henri Valensi Paintings and drawings of the Dardanelles campaign and of the 1915-1916 campaign in Greece as "painter to the expeditionary corps staff"; organised by musicologist Henry Valensi
20-31 January 1919 Lucien Jacques and Joseph Gilardoni
1921 Albert Huyot
Summer 1921 "A Group of English Modern Painters" - Robert Bevan, Stanisława de Karłowska, Harold Gilman, Edward McKnight Kauffer, John Nash, Edward Wadsworth
November-December 1921 Robert Lotiron
1922 Lucien Jacques
1922 Lucien Jacques
1922 Henri Lebasque
1923 Théo van Rysselberghe
1923 Odilon Redon
1924 Pierre Bonnard Retrospective
1924 Maurice Asselin
1925 Pedro Figari
1926 Irène Reno
March-April 1926 Jean Helleu
1926 Berthe Morisot Pastels, watercolours, drawings and crayon drawings
December 1926 Jean Puy & Henry de Waroquier
1929 Zoum Walter
1929, 1930, 1933, 1937 Marcel Roche
1932 Adrienne Jouclard
1933 Dimitri Bouchène
1934 Joseph Rossi
February 1935 Pauline Peugniez
1935 Émile Bouneau
1935 Celso Lagar
1936 Roland Oudot
1936 Jean Aujame
November 1936 Gérard Cochet, Othon Coubine, Henriette Deloras, Robert Lotiron, Jacques Lestrille, Hélène Marre & Georges Sabbagh Recent works
17-28 January 1938 Raymond Legueult
May-June 1938 André Villeboeuf

References

  1. (in French) Archives de la ville de Paris, Birth Registration, 1860-1870.
  2. (in French) Serge Gérard, Rodin, l´homme d´airain, Éditions Cheminements, 2004.
  3. (in French) Chronologie de la vie de Rodin sur www.musee-rodin.fr.
  4. ^ (in French) "Revue Les Nouvelles de l´INHA, n°17" (PDF). ihna.fr. April 2004.
  5. (in French) "Revue Les Nouvelles de l´INHA, n°17" (PDF). ihna.fr. Conservatrice chargée des collections de photographies du Musée Rodin. April 2004..
  6. (in French) L´exposition Rodin au pavillon de l´Alma (1900), on www.histoire-image.org.
  7. Short article on´Eugène Druet
  8. (in French) Courte biographie d´Eugène Druet on a site devoted to commune Sainte-Marguerite-de-Carrouges.
  9. (in French) Gertrude Stein, L'Autobiographie d'Alice B. Toklas, chapter 3, p.36, Édition L'Imaginaire, Gallimard, 2006.
  10. La peinture française au musée Pouchkine, no. 174.
  11. (in French) Courte biographie d´Eugène Druet on www.autochromes.culture.fr.
  12. Chroniques d'art, 10 January 1911.
  13. ^ (in French) "Article : Quand on vendait la Peau de l´ours". www.centaures.com..
  14. (in French) Pierre Sanchez, Les expositions de la galerie Eugène Druet : répertoire des artistes exposants et liste de leurs œuvres, 1903-1938, preface by Dominique Vieville, Éditions L'Échelle de Jacob, 2009.
  15. (in French) Template:Pdf Catalogue de l´exposition Henri Manguin à la galerie Fleury, du 15 septembre au 15 novembre 2010.
  16. ^ "Chronologie des expositions de Théo van Rysselberghe". www.artnet.de. Retrieved 11/01/2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  17. ^ Liste des expositions d´Odilon Redon sur la base de données Joconde.
  18. (in French) The painting View of the Pont-Neuf (short arm) is marked "GALERIE DRUET 114 faub. St-Honoré, PARIS ; no. 36 32 ; Marquet Rue de Paris neige." on the top of its frame
  19. (in French) Article on Cézanne on www.artsetsocietes.org : E. Druet lent The Old Woman with the Rosary to the Armory Show exhibitition in New-York in 1913.
  20. (in French) Diana Wiegersma, Jules Cavaillès, Jules Cavaillès Research Center, May 2007.
  21. (in French) Magdeleine Dayot, « Expositions visitées : Galerie Druet », L'Art et les Artistes, October 1932, p. 178
  22. (in French) le procédé Druet on the Réunion des Musées nationaux website
  23. Description of the Nijinski series on www.christies.com.
  24. (in French) Bulletin de la SFP, 1908.
  25. (in French) Article Rodin en images on www.rfi.fr.
  26. Bruno Belleil, « Albert Clouard… », Ar Men, n°31, 1990, p. 74
  27. (in French) Bibliographical entry on the base de données de la BnF.
  28. List of exhibitions of Berthe Morisot's work.
  29. (in French) List of exhibition of Jacqueline Marval's work.
  30. Le Figaro, 4 July 1921, p.2 — on Retronews.
  31. « Pierre Bonnard » on larousse.fr.
  32. (in French) Timeline of Jean Helleu's exhibitions on www.artnet.de
  33. (in French) Marius Richard, « Joseph Rossi peintre mélancolique », in: La Liberté, Paris, 22 June 1934, p.4.

Bibliography (in French)

  • Hélène Pinet, Les photographes de Rodin : Jacques-Ernest Bulloz, Eugène Druet, Stephen Haweis et Henry Coles, Jean-François Limet, Eduard Steichen, Paris, Musée Rodin, 1986, ISBN 978-2-901428-11-4.
  • Rodin et la photographie,
  • Guide des collections du musée Rodin, Paris, Musée Rodin, 2008.
  • Pierre Sanchez, Les expositions de la galerie Eugène Druet. Répertoire des artistes exposants et liste de leurs œuvres, 1903-1938, preface by Dominique Vieville, Éditions L'Échelle de Jacob, 2009.
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