A Conference of Lawyers

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin French

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Saint-Aubin’s expansive interests included a fascination with all types of science and learning. In this late etching, he portrayed lawyers in dark robes solemnly gathered around a candlelit table, listening, presumably, to a paper being read. Presiding over the scene, and dwarfing the flesh-and-blood figures below, are personifications of the guiding forces of the legal profession: Justice, Eloquence, and Truth.

A Conference of Lawyers, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1724–1780 Paris), Etching, second state of two

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