Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I ako ia i raro i a Jacques-Louis David i mua i tana mahi me Jean-Baptiste Isabey, e whitu nga tau o Guérin, i muri i tana tutaki ki a ia i te whare a David. I tono a David i a Guérin kia whakaahua i tētahi o ana tamahine i mua noa iho i tana marenatanga - i whakaae a Guérin engari me te tikanga ka whakaahua a David i tana tamahine māna. Ko Marie-Antoinette tana kaitiaki matua me tana kaitiaki. I te tau 1792 he mema ia o te waahanga Filles Saint-Thomas o te Kaitiaki Motu, i tiakina e ia te whanau kingi ki nga sans-culottes i te Whakaaturanga o te 20 o Pipiri
i taua tau.