O Escritório do Advogado (The Lawyer’s Office) - Marinus van Reymerswaele
New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans Estados Unidos
Óleo sobre madeira - 102x123 - 1545
A lawyer with his arm and hand raised is seated at the left. His clerk,
writing, is in the center, while three other men fill the right side. The one
in front empties a bag of money. The criticism of greed was a popular theme in
16th-century Netherlandish painting. Paintings like this one were used to
satirize the legal profession which was already being criticized for its
avarice. Van Reymerswaele's reputation is based upon this type of satirical
genre painting. The documents in the background of this painting refer to an
actual lawsuit begun in 1526 but not resolved until 1538 by which time the
property in dispute had been destroyed by storms.
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