Eugène Druet: The Sculptor's Eye Eugène Druet (26 June 1867 – 21 January 1916) was a French photographer and art dealer born 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. His keen eye for detail and artistic sensibility would ultimately lead him to forg…