This fascinating print is made by Eugène Dumoulin (1844 - ca. 1926). Probably a test print from his photographic experiments. This gum bichromate print depicts the cabaret "Le Lapin Agile" in Montmartre, Paris. The famous painting of this cabaret is visible above the letters "TEUR" [traiteur]. The text "A Ma Campagne" is painted on the wall just below the roof.
A watermark is visible in the sky of the uneven trimmed paper. One pinhole in the lower right corner.

Dumoulin started his photographic work as early as 1860, when het was only 16 years old.
Around 1870, he began to take an interest in what would become a
essential quests in his career as a practitioner and inventor: rendering
colors in photography. He studied the "Loi du contraste simultané des
couleurs" by Michel-Eugène Chevreul.
Eugène Dumoulin published in the 1870s
several works that support the democratization of photography: "Manuel
élémentaire de photographie au collodion humide" (1874), "Les couleurs reproduites en photographie" (1876), "La photographie sans laboratoire" (1886) and "La photographie sans maître" (1890).

The offered print was probably made during the research for these manuals and coloring tests with different photographic techniques.

gum bichromate print ca. 8,7 x 7 cm
ca. 1886 - 1893

A large part of Dumoulin's archive is now in the BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France).