L. Roger-Milès, Maîtres du XVIIIe siècle: Cent pastels, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1908, reproduced pl. 55 by engraving with its pendant
G. Brière, P. Vitry, M. Tourneux, and H. Stein, "Notes critiques sur les oeuvres...à l'Exposition des Cent pastels...", in Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1908: p. 232
P.-A. Lemoisne, "Exposition de cent pastels et de bustes du XVIIIe siècle", in Les Arts 82 (October 1908): p. 27, reproduced
G. Labat, "Étude sur l'exposition de cent pastels du XVIIIe siècle", in Actes de l'Académie nationale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux LXXI, 1909, p. 314
P. de Nolhac, Nattier: Peintre de la cour de Louis XV, Paris 1925, p. 267
G. Huard, “Nattier 1685 à 1766," in Les peintres français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1928-30, vol. II, p. 127, cat. no. 117
R. Gimpel, Journal d'un collectionneur. Marchand de tableaux, Paris 1963, p. 172
X. Salmon, "Jean-Marc Nattier, pastelliste", in L'Objet d'art (November 1999): pp. 34-41, reproduced fig. 2
J. Savelon, "J.N.P. Royer: un musicien méconnu redécouvert à travers son inventaire après décès," in Le jardin de musique 2, 2005, pp. 92, 98
K. Baetjer and M. Shelley, Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe, exhibition catalogue, New York 2011, no. 11, pp. 20-21, 25, reproduced in color p. 21
N. Jeffares, "Review of Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York", in The Burlington magazine CLIII, no. VII, 2011: pp. 500-501, reproduced fig. 74
B. Wilcox, "The Music Libraries of the Concert Spirituel: Canons, Repertoires, and Bricolage in 18th-century Paris," Ph.D. diss, University of California, Davis 2013, pp. 57-58, reproduced fig. 1 (with pendant)
M. Stevens et al., Jean-Étienne Liotard, exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh and London 2015, reproduced fig. 15
N. Jeffares, "Nattier, Jean-Marc," in Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800, online version, 2020, no. J.554.179, pp. 1, 5, reproduced in color p. 5