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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..

As a photographer

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, musée Georg Kolbe, Berlin.
• 14 November 2007 to 2 March 2008, Rodin sous l'œil des photographes, musée Rodin, Paris.

• Photographs by Eugène Druet
• Auguste Rodin, Monument to Balzac.
• Auguste Rodin, The Bronze Hand
• Auguste Rodin, Le Baiser (c. 1898).
• Paul Gauguin, Soyez amoureuses vous serez heureuses.
• Maurice Denis, Psyche Appears to Cupid.
• Vaslav Nijinsky in the Siamese dance from Orientales (1910).
• Façade of Roger & Gallet in Paris.

Selected exhibitions at the galerie Druet

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) Article Rodin en images on www.rfi.fr.

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.

• 19th-century French photographers
• 20th-century French photographers
• People from Paris
• French art dealers
• 1867 births
• 1910 deaths