A Conference of Lawyers

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

1776 · Etching, second state of two · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Date

1776

Medium

Etching, second state of two

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Derald H. and Janet Ruttenberg Gift, 1985