David produced formal oil on canvas portrait paintings of young European men with the same dignified bearing, classical restraint and refined brushwork seen in this eighteenth century oval portrait. His works share the same monochromatic palette tendencies and formal compositional conventions of French neoclassical portraiture from this exact period.

Drouais was among the leading Parisian portrait painters of the eighteenth century producing formal oil on canvas bust length portraits of young men with ornate framing conventions and refined classical execution directly comparable to this work. His portraits circulated extensively through the French market and align closely with the dignified traditional style of this piece.