Silverpoint Drawing Complete
Links to Old (& Modern) Master Metalpoint Drawings

Examples of metalpoint drawings found on the 'Web. .
 Let us know if you've found a good example during your Web travels, and we'll add the link here.

A Cautionary Note regarding online images:

Many sites, with or without permission, duplicate fine art drawings from images printed in books or magazines. Educational institutions hosting scholarly Web projects on art and artists also do this.

Printed sources for reproduction of drawings are not accurate; all marks upon the drawing surface have been translated into dots. Even worse, ink color choices, and sometimes deliberate decisions for two-color or three-color printing, turn the reproduction into little more than an approximation of the work's actual colors. Additional limitations are created when the images are digitized and formatted for browsers; how much this affects the end results depends on the technician. Even accurate slides made from original works of art will suffer from the digitization and formatting process.

Viewers of fine art images found on the web should know that no site other than the artwork's owning museum should be considered authoritative as far as color is concerned.

Not even coffee table artbooks should be completely trusted. To be absolutely certain of all visible aspects of a work of art, you must view the original. I just gave you an excellent excuse for a trip to Europe!

Leonardo da Vinci

Bust of a Warrior in Profile, British Museum (various titling)

Study of Woman's Hands, Web Gallery of Art

Half Figure of an Apostle, San Jose State's EmBark

 

Raphael

Head and Shoulders of a Young Woman, British Museum

Nude Man with Raised Arms, British Museum

Heads of the Virgin and Child, British Museum

Study for the Head of a Poet, Web Gallery of Art

Rogier van der Weyden

Portrait of a Young Woman, British Museum

Portrait of the Virgin/Madonna, Web Gallery of Art

St. Mary Magdalene, Web Gallery of Art

Portrait of a Young Man, Web Gallery of Art

Hendrik Goltzius

Self-Portrait, British Museum

Albrecht Durer

Several self portraits on this Art History professor's study page

Portrait of Lucas van Leyden, Web Gallery of Art

Jan van Eyck

Portrait of Cardinal Albergati, Web Gallery of Art

St. Barbara, CGFA

Dirk Bouts

Portrait of a Man, Web Gallery of Art

Filippino Lippi

A Nude Man, British Museum

Raffaellino del Garbo

Studies for Christ Rising from the Tomb and Hand Studies, British Museum

Jean Fouquet

Portrait of an Ecclesiastic, CGFA

Lorenzo di Credi

Head of a Youth, Museum of Fine Arts-Boston

Hans Holbein

Portrait of the Artist's Sons, Hermitage Museum

Otto Dix

Old Woman, Seated, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Joseph Stella

Flower Study, National Museum of American Art

 

August Mosca

Classical Still Life, Goldpoint, David Hall Fine Art

Thomas Willmer Dewing

Head of a Woman, National Museum of American Art

See also/next:

Contemporary Silverpoint Drawings on the Web

Last update: January 2007