Public domain art in black
Artworks whose dominant colour is black, measured from the image itself rather than from a curator's tag. Every work here is free to download and reuse.
Works in Public domain art in black

View on the Catskill—Early Autumn
Thomas Cole

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck
John Singleton Copley

Midshipman Augustus Brine
John Singleton Copley

Mrs. John Winthrop
John Singleton Copley

The Beeches
Asher Brown Durand

The Chess Players
Thomas Eakins

The Gulf Stream
Winslow Homer

George Washington
Charles Willson Peale

Still Life with Cake
Raphaelle Peale

Mrs. Mayer and Daughter
Ammi Phillips

Mrs. Francis Brinley and Her Son Francis
John Smibert

Josef de Jaudenes y Nebot
Gilbert Stuart

Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes
Gilbert Stuart

George Washington and William Lee
John Trumbull

The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar
John Trumbull

Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles
John Vanderlyn

A Bit of War History: The Veteran
Thomas Waterman Wood

A Bit of War History: The Contraband
Thomas Waterman Wood

A Rose
Thomas Anshutz

George Washington
Gilbert Stuart

Michael Angelo and Emma Clara Peale
Rembrandt Peale

Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet

The Judgment of Paris
Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Third-Class Carriage
Honoré Daumier

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)
Anthony van Dyck

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Thomas Gainsborough

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Broken Eggs
Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Samson Captured by the Philistines
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor
Joos van Cleve

The Penitent Magdalen
Georges de La Tour

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto

The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet

The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda)
Luis Meléndez

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)
Sir Joshua Reynolds

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

Merry Company on a Terrace
Jan Steen

Clothing the Naked
Michiel Sweerts

Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Study of a Young Woman
Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Two Men Contemplating the Moon
Caspar David Friedrich

Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Lute Player
Valentin de Boulogne

Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

The Annunciation
Hans Memling

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David