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![Study of a Bearded Man [verso]](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/9e303e10-56f0-4eba-ac44-4a9793752a0f/full/!800,800/0/default.jpg)
Study of a Bearded Man [verso]
Hans Holbein the Elder
silverpoint and charcoal heightened with white on white prepared paper · 1508
National Gallery of Art

The Head of a Woman in Profile Facing Left
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
Silverpoint and leadpoint, highlighted with white gouache, on pale blue-gray (indigo) prepared paper. Media tested by the Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) and fiber optics reflectance spectroscopy (FORS); October 1, 2019. · 1490
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
![Head of a Child [recto]](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/25d762b2-f817-4733-bf46-a6ac25c209fa/full/!800,800/0/default.jpg)
Head of a Child [recto]
Fra Bartolommeo
silverpoint, heightened with white, on yellow-brown prepared paper · 1490
National Gallery of Art

Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci
Silverpoint, partly reworked by the artist with pen and dark brown ink on pink prepared paper; lines ruled with metalpoint (recto); pen and brown ink (verso) · 1480
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Bear Walking
Leonardo da Vinci
silverpoint on light buff prepared paper · 1477
The Metropolitan Museum of Art