Eugène Trutat

Eugène Trutat (25 August 1840 – 6 August 1910)[1] was a French naturalist, mountaineer, pyreneist, geologist and photographer, who was curator of the Museum of Toulouse.

Eugène Trutat
Portrait of Eugène Trutat by Nadar
Born(1840-08-25)25 August 1840
Died6 August 1910(1910-08-06) (aged 69)
OccupationNaturalist, mountaineer, geologist, photographer

He began taking photographs in 1859, and produced almost 15,000 over the course of the next fifty years, covering a wide range of topics.

Publications

  • La Photographie appliquée à l’archéologie, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1879
  • Traité élémentaire du microscope, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1883
  • La Photographie appliquée à l’histoire naturelle, 1884
  • Les Papiers photographiques par développement,
  • Une excursion à Montpellier-le-Vieux (Aveyron), Toulouse, imp. Durand, 1885
  • Le Midi pittoresque, la Vallée de la Garonne, Limoges, Marc Barbou et Cie, 1894
  • Les Pyrénées, Paris, librairie J.-B. Baillière, 1896
  • La Photographie animée, 1899

15.000 photographs are preserved in the Photographic Library of the Museum of Toulouse.

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