Conrado Martino METZ -- incisioni di statuaria romana antica -- "Imitations, from Italy", 109 plates in aquatinta, 1798.

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Conrad Martin Metz (1749-1827) published a series of plates,

Studies from the Antique
30 plates.
Fol. London,
1785. S.K.,

designed for students of drawing to copy in their pursuit of knowledge of the classical ideal.

Copy books like these substituted for plaster casts and for live models in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Other books by Metz are:

Imitations of Ancient and Modern Drawings, f
rom the Restoration of the Arts -
1798

Metz's studies of the human figure - 1819Studies for Drawing the Human
Figure, Groups of Figures & Historial Composition
1796

Imitations of ancient and modern Drawings,
from the Restoration of the Arts
 in Italy to the present time.

Together with a chronological account of the artists and strictures on their works (in English and French).
109 plates in aquatinta.
Atlas fol. London, 1798.

Principi del Disegno,
ricavati dagli antichi mouumenti,
dalle opere di Raffaello, Michel Angelo,
ed altri.
Combinati cd incisi da C. M. M. Fol. Koma, 1812.

Schediasmata selecta
ex Archetypis Polidori Caravagiensis in Musaeo
hon. Viri A. Hume Bar' conservatis, fideliter hnitata,
auctore C. M. M. 64 plates. Fol. Londoni, 1791.

Imitations of Drawings by Parraegiano
in the Collection of His Majesty.
Engraved and published by C. M. M. 34 plates.
Fol. London, 1790.

Studies for drawing the Human Figure was published in 1870.

Metz was born in Bonn, Germany in 1749, and worked in Germany and Italy.

Metz was a pupil of Bartolozzi.

Metz was renowned for beautiful classical illustrations, particularly of figures like Marte, Venere and Diana, best known by his numerous imitations and facsimiles of drawings by the old masters.

Metz died in 1827.

ARC Prints has a series of lithographed reprints available for sale.

 

 

From the Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge published in 1851,
By Charles Knight,

Conrad Martin METZ, ,
a celebrated German engraver of Bonn, where he was born in 1755. 

Metz studied under Bartolozzi, in London, and remained altogether about twenty years in England.

Metz published in 1790 a set of thirty-three engravings, including the title, after George the Third's collection of drawings by Parmegiano ; and in 1791 a set of sixty-three plates in a similar style, after the designs by Polidoro da Caravaggio, in the possession of Sir A. Hume, Bart.

He engraved many other imitations of drawings by the old masters.

In 1801 Metz went to Rome, and commenced a series of engravings after the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, by Michel Angelo.

It is engraved in chalk manner in fifteen separate sheets, with an outline of the whole.

Metz died at Rome in 1827.

Nagler enumerates upwards of two hundred of his engravings in his Kunstler-Lexicon.

Metz also worked as an engraver.

Here are two of his works for Hans Holbein,
The Lady Elliot and Phillip Melanchton.

Books mentioning Conrad Martin Metz:

Der ideale KunstkörperThe Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s:
2 Volumes

Metz's studies of the human figure in twenty-eight plates

 

 

 

 

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