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

A Night Class
Jehan-Georges Vibert

Portrait of an Old Man
Giulio Campi

The Denial of Peter
Peter Wtewael

A Young Woman
Gerrit Dou

Circus Horses
Clarence Holbrook Carter

Portrait of Jane Hoskyns
George Romney

The Betrayal of Christ
Jacob Jordaens

The Monkey and the Cat
Abraham Hondius

A Mountain Stream
Julie H. Beers

Street Singer and Child
John Opie

Portrait of a Prelate
Girolamo da Carpi

Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Charles Poërson

Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal
Christen Købke

Virgin and Child
Rossello di Jacopo Franchi

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Bernardino Luini

Portrait of Charles I (1600–1649)
Anthony van Dyck

Hannah Wentworth Atkinson
Joseph Blackburn

View of a Lake
Thomas Doughty

Portrait of a Woman (Judith Colman Bulfinch?)
John Smibert

Vintage Scene
Le Nain

Peasant Children Dancing
Le Nain

Cobbler's Quarters
Jean-Alphonse Duplessy

Flowers in a Vase
Simon Verelst

Presentation Sketch for "The Holy Family with Saints Anne, Joachim, and John the Baptist" (for Santa Maria in Via Lata, Roma)
Francesco Trevisani

Still Life with Pipe and Matches and Still Life with Herring, Bread, and Cheese (pair)
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

The Healing of Tobit
Bernardo Strozzi

Medallion from the Border of a Latin Bible: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
Primo Miniatore di San Domenico

In the Forest
Célestin François Nanteuil

A Forest with Apollo and Daphne
Jean-Victor Bertin

The Death of General Colbert
Victor Schnetz

Heaven and Hell
Octave Tassaert

Return to Nazareth
Francesco Conti

Still Life with Herring, Bread, and Cheese
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

The Four Seasons
Henry Picou

Dante and Virgil Meeting the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo
Ary Scheffer

Trees and a Stream on a Hillside
Jasper F. Cropsey

Leo Lehmann
Rudolf Lehmann

Mary Fairlie Cooper
William Dunlap

Portrait of a Man
William Beechey

Wilson Cary Nicholas
Gilbert Stuart

Souvenir of an "International Ball" (Portrait of Miss Kathleen Bruce)
Charles Hasslewood Shannon

Card Game at "le Père Martin"
Adolphe-Félix Cals

Virgin and Child
Bernardino Luini

Self-Portrait with Raphael de Ochoa
Jacques-Émile Blanche

Portrait of a Musician
Andrea Appiani

Harvest Time
George Inness

The Cossack
John Singer Sargent

Virgin and Child with Angels
Master of the Holden Tondo

Our Lady of Good Counsel
Bartolomé Pérez

Head of a Woman
Antonio Guardi

Summer
Jean-Baptiste Pater

The Cliff at Étretat
Gustave Courbet

Pastoral Scene
René Ménard

Head of a Boy
George Fuller

The Bathers
Narcisse Diaz de la Peña

Sleeping Shepherds
Adriaen van de Velde

A Family Meal
Le Nain family

Martin Luther Hurlbut
John Neagle

The Pancakes
Jozef Israëls

Marguerite-Juliette Pierret
Eugène Delacroix