Eugène Trutat was a French naturalist, mountaineer, pyreneist, geologist and photographer, who was curator of the Museum of Toulouse.
Portrait of Eugène Trutat by Nadar
Henry Russell (right) and the baron de Lassus (left) in Luchon, in 1895, photograph by Eugène Trutat
Chopper - Collection Eugene Trutat
Pyreneanism is a 19th-century sporting culture as well as an artistic and literary movement centered around exploring the Pyrenees in order to create works inspired by the experience, whether for cont
Eugène Trutat
…Eugène Trutat (25 August 1840 – 6 August 1910) 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…
Count Henry Russell (foreground) and Léonce Lourde-Rocheblave [fr], seated near the entrance of the Russell Caves at the Vignemale, accompanied by their guides.
Henri Béraldi coined the term "pyreneanism".
Félix Régnault [fr] and guide Henri Passet at the Tuquerouye Escalade, October 1892.
Henry Russell in front of the entrance to one of the Russell Caves.