Eugène Druet

[1] 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.

[8] It soon became well-known and is mentioned in chapter three of Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas : on the other side of Paris, on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, was based the former restaurant owner and photographer Druet.

[4] 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".

[12] 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.

[4] 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).

[23] 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".