 He was received into the Académie royale in 1758 with his "morceaux des réception" portraits of the celebrated sculptors Edme Bouchardon (1698–1762) and Guillaume II Coustou (1716–77).Both portraits were exhibited at the Salon of 1759 and received praise.Drouais attended the meetings of the Académie royale and, from 1755 until his death in 1775, exhibited regularly at the official Salons held in the Louvre in Paris.