Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, J. Claye, 1866 (read online), p. 100.
Journal of the Academy of Toulouse and other academies of the Empire, vol. 23-24, Toulouse, Delboy & Armaing, 1866, p. 208.
Edouard Pommier, A Chalgrin collaborator, François-Joseph Duret (1729-1816), sculptor and ornamental sculptor figurist, Bulletin of the Society of the History of French Art, 1985 Paris, 1987, p. 137.
François-Joseph Duret in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website