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Saint-Aubin's painted oeuvre is rare, and he is much better known for his brilliant drawings of everyday life, particularly the series of portrayals of the visitors to the Paris Salons, in which it is possible to observe the method of hanging and identify individual works. This work is one of his largest paintings and, like his other surviving pictures, shows an everyday location - a lawyers' chambers - painted in a bold, fluent fashion that immediately recalls the work of the English genre painter, William Hogarth.
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