Portrait de Monseigneur Dominique de la Rochefoucauld, archevêque d'Albi, plus tard Cardinal archevêque de Rouen

Drouais's 1757 portrait of Dominique de la Rochefoucauld, Archbishop of Albi and later Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, is a significant ecclesiastical commission from one of the most powerful members of the French Church. La Rochefoucauld came from one of France's great noble families and moved effortlessly between court and Church authority; his portrait reflects the magnificence appropriate to a prince of both secular and spiritual power in the ancien régime. Drouais, the preferred portraitist of French high society in the 1750s and 1760s, brought his decorative refinement to the official portrait formula.

The cardinal's red robes provide the dominant chromatic statement — Drouais renders the ecclesiastical velvet and watered silk with precise differentiation of the various reds. The face is treated with more gravity than his female portraits, appropriate for a male subject of high clerical dignity. The composition follows official portrait convention.