Eugène Trutat

Eugène Trutat
Portrait of Eugène Trutat by Nadar
Born (1840-08-25)25 August 1840
Died 6 August 1910(1910-08-06) (aged 69)
Occupation Naturalist, mountaineer, geologist, photographer

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.

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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