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Earth Receiving the Code of Roman Law from the Emperors Hadrian and Justinian
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Earth Receiving the Code of Roman Law from the Emperors Hadrian and Justinian

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white over black chalk on brownish paper. Squared in black chalk.

Dimensions

24 5/8 x 15 15/16 in. (62.5 x 40.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff Gift, 1977

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Charles Meynier

1768–1832France

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