Simon Chenard as a Sans-Culotte (French: Portrait du chanteur Simon Chenard en costume de sans-culotte) is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly, from 1792.
[3] The painting depicts the singer Simon Chenard holding up a French tricolour, dressed as a Sans-culotte.
The Fête was held to celebrate the French conquest and annexation of Savoy, following their surprising victory at the Battle of Valmy, on 20 September 1792, where the French defeated the Kingdom of Prussia and the Holy Roman Empire.
Chenard stands still, looking into the sky, as if searching for inspiration, and has a pipe on his mouth.
[4] Rolf Reichardt and Hubertus Kohle state that the work: "In a remarkable mixing of categories typical of revolutionary art, Boilly's small picture unites portrait, genre and history painting, with the aim of eliminating social categories (...) to give artistic expression to the break with the hierarchical social order of the Estates.