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Earth Receiving the Code of Roman Law from the Emperors Hadrian and Justinian
Charles Meynier (French, Paris 1768–1832 Paris)
1802–03
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white over black chalk on brownish paper. Squared in black chalk.
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 24 5/8 x 15 15/16 in. (62.5 x 40.5 cm)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff Gift, 1977
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
