François-Joseph Duret
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Saint-Philippe du Roule, its pediment representing Religion and its attributes is by François-Joseph Duret
Françoise-Joseph Duret (12 November 1729 – 7 August 1816) was a French sculptor. He was the father and teacher of Francisque Joseph Duret.
Born at Valenciennes, the son of Charles Durez, of Spanish origin, Duret was prince of the Academy of St. Luke, a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, and sculptor and decorator for Honoré Armand de Villars. His reception piece at the Academy, representing Diogenes looking for a man, is at the . He married the daughter of his brother Jean-François Last. Joseph Duret had had several children all of whom died, before his son Francisque Joseph Duret survived, and became a renowned artist in his own right.
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty
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(help) - 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
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- 18th-century French sculptors
- French male sculptors
- 19th-century French sculptors
- People from Valenciennes
- 1729 births
- 1816 deaths
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