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

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer

Portrait of a Man with a Rosary
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

Mary (1505–1558), Queen of Hungary
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1768–1844) with the Bust of Horace Vernet
Horace Vernet

Madonna and Child
Andrea del Verrocchio

Portrait of a Man
Johannes Verspronck

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)
Antoine Vestier

The Reprimand
Jean-Georges Vibert

Abraham's Parting from the Family of Lot
Jan Victors

Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Vorlée, 1761–1835)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie Denise Villers

Madame Ingouf
Vincent

Still Life with Cheese
Antoine Vollon

A Vase with Flowers
Jacob Vosmaer

Portrait of a Man
Abraham de Vries

The Pigeon House
Roelof van Vries

Gamepiece with a Dead Heron
Jan Weenix

The Highland Family
Sir David Wilkie

Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff (Maria Ivanovna Beck, 1835–1866)
Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Florinda
Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Portrait of a Woman
Willem Wissing

Kitchen Scene
Peter Wtewael

Saint Lucy
Francesco Zaganelli (Francesco di Bosio)

Edward R. Bacon (1846–1915)
Anders Zorn

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo
Francisco de Zurbarán

Saint Benedict
Francisco de Zurbarán

The Crucifixion
Francisco de Zurbarán

Ponte San Rocco and Waterfalls, Tivoli
François Marius Granet

Christ Presented to the People (Ecce Homo)
Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)

Pansies
Henri Fantin-Latour

The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, 1841–1906)
Auguste Renoir

The Crucifixion
Paolo Uccello (Paolo di Dono)

Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (1791–1824)
Horace Vernet

Desdemona (The Song of the Willow)
Théodore Chassériau

A Man Leaning on a Parapet
Georges Seurat

Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Prison
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Santi di Tito

Young Woman with Ibis
Edgar Degas

Springtime
Pierre-Auguste Cot

An Eruption of Vesuvius
Johan Christian Dahl

Salvator Mundi
Domenico Fetti

The Burial of Christ
Annibale Carracci

Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware
Willem Claesz Heda

Portrait of a Man with a Shell
Thomas de Keyser

Portrait of a Woman with a Balance
Thomas de Keyser

Young Woman with a Red Necklace
Rembrandt

Madame Jacques-Louis-Étienne Reizet (Colette-Désirée-Thérèse Godefroy, 1782–1850)
Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson

Man Holding a Jug
Michiel Sweerts

God the Father
Ambrogio Bevilacqua

The Lamentation
Ludovico Carracci

The Virgin Adoring the Host
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Landscape with Travelers on a Woodland Path
Jan Brueghel the Elder

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows
Bernard van Orley

Still Life with Shells and a Chip-Wood Box
Sebastian Stoskopff

The Sack of Jerusalem by the Romans
François Joseph Heim

First Steps
Franz Ludwig Catel

Dramatic Scene with Monks in a Crypt
Alexandre Evariste Fragonard

Monks in the Cloister of the Church of Gesù e Maria, Rome
François Marius Granet