Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns

Attributed to Jacquemart de Hesdin and others,
 Sketchbook Formed of Six Panels of Prepared Boxwood, open to Women and Wild Men, c. 1390/1400,
 model book with drawings in metalpoint (probably silverpoint) on prepared boxwood,
 The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906

Rogier van der Weyden
, Portrait of an Unknown Young Woman, c. 1435/1440, silverpoint on prepared paper,
 On loan from The British Museum, London © The Trustees of The British Museum, London

Albrecht Dürer
, A Dog Resting, 1520, silverpoint over traces of carbon black on prepared paper, On loan from The British Museum, London © The Trustees of The British Museum, London

Leonardo da Vinci, A Bust of a Warrior, c. 1475/1480, silverpoint on prepared paper,
 On loan from The British Museum, London © The Trustees of The British Museum, London

Filippino Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, and Raffaellino del Garbo, Page from “Libro de’ Disegni,”  drawings probably 1480–1504; mounted by Giorgio Vasari, album page with drawings in metalpoint and various media, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Woodner Collection, Patrons’ Permanent Fund

Raphael,
 Studies for an Infant Christ, c. 1509,
 silverpoint on prepared paper, 
On loan from The British Museum, London, Bequeathed by Richard Payne Knight, 1824 © The Trustees of The British Museum, London

Hendrick Goltzius, Young Woman Reading a Book (Portrait of Sophia Goltzius, Sister of the Artist?), Seen from Above, 1591, metalpoint (probably silverpoint) on prepared paper or parchment, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett © bpk, Berlin/Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen/Jörg P. Anders/Art Resource, NY

Rembrandt van Rijn, Five Studies of Heads, c. 1633,
 silverpoint on prepared vellum,
 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Koenigs Collection  

William Holman Hunt, Study for Saint Joseph, 1876,
 silverpoint with graphite and scraping on prepared paper, On loan from The British Museum, London, Donated by Edith Holman Hunt © The Trustees of The British Museum, London

Joseph Edward Southall, Head of a Girl, 1899,
 metalpoint (probably silverpoint) with scratching on prepared paper,
 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, Purchased with funds from the Schweppe Art Acquisition Fund

Otto Dix, Old Woman, 1932,
 metalpoint (probably silverpoint) and graphite (?) on prepared paper, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Purchase, 1950 © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY