Eugène Druet

the photographer's monogram blindstamp on the image, on a double mount, stamped 'Phot. Procéde DRUET' on the primary mount, blindstamped on the secondary mount, framed, the Buhl Collection label on the reverse, late 1890s

Sander Gallery, New York, 1995

In the mid to late 1890s, Druet made a series of images of Rodin's small bronze The Clenched Hand (1885). Druet, who owned a bar across the street from Rodin's studio, produced a number of photographs of Rodin's sculptures. In the artist's 1900 retrospective in Paris at the Exposition Universelle, Rodin included more than 70 of Druet's photographs of his sculptures.This warm-toned early print, on paper with a very matte-surface, is in generally excellent condition. Upon very close examination, 2 tiny white deposits of indeterminate nature are visible in the upper right quadrant. The secondary mount is unevenly trimmed along the upper and left edges. There are scattered, small rust-colored deposits on the secondary mount.On the reverse of the secondary mount are various reduction notations in pencil.
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