Chéry is a painter who produced few works and who is known particularly for his involvement in the Revolution.  This portrait, for a long time attributed to Greuze, is remarkable for its great simplicity, characteristic of the painter’s style and of the genre of portraiture at the end of the 18th century. The décor, expressed as the back of a chair, is superfluous.  The simplicity of the unidentified model and the white clothing could allude to the revolutionary ideology of the time.