• Object type: Painting
• Formal Title: Gabriel Verrus
• Creator: unknown
• Date Created: circa 1750
• Origin: Milan, Italy
• Current Location: Milan, Italy

From the time of Hammurabi, judges, law teachers and lawyers have promoted their special status in society. Educated and wealthy made a potent combination.

This gorgeous portrait of the Milan, Italy jurist Gabriel Verri (also spelled "Vurrus") is in typical ostentatious style. Dressed in a splendid black gown, a sign of his knowledge, Verri is holding a book with his name on the spine and behind him are shelves of similar books. Indeed, Verri was a well-known author on the topic of Roman and civil law as it was then applied in Northern Italy.

In Milan, his house was a place of high society.

Gabriel Verri is unkown outside of Italy except for the keenest civil and Roman law academics. Two of his sons followed his path to a career in law. One, Pietro Verri, was a close friend of Cesare Beccaria.

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