Duret was both a collector and friend of the Impressionists, about whom he published a book in 1878, Les Peintres impressionnistes (revised in 1906 with a chapter devoted to Cezanne). Duret's collection of impressionist painting was sold at the Galerie Georges Petit on 19 March 1894.
Bibliography
1995
Cezanne. Exh. cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1995:571