Public domain art in charcoal
Artworks whose dominant colour is charcoal, 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 charcoal

L'Aile (The Wing)
Odilon Redon

Peasant Couple in a Doorway
Adriaen van Ostade

Four Men at a Window, One Reading from a Sheet by Candlelight
Adriaen van Ostade

Robert Burns
Samuel Cousins

Lucinda, Miss Moore
James Watson

Samuel Johnson
James Watson

Little Arthur
James McNeill Whistler

The Music-Room
James McNeill Whistler

An Irish Girl or Annie
Anders Zorn

The Accusers of Theft, Adultery, Murder (War)
William Blake
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Dream of Thiralatha [from "America," cancelled plate d]
William Blake

Head of a Girl with Curly Hair
Francesco Francia

Mahna no Varua Ino (The Devil Speaks)
Paul Gauguin

Woman with the Arrow
Rembrandt van Rijn

Garrick in the Role of Richard III
Charles Grignion

Bathers Wrestling (Baigneuses luttants)
Camille Pissarro

Cherub on a Vase with Inscription: "SOLI DEO HONOR"
Peregrino da Cesena

Barn Owl
Robert Havell, Jr.

American White Pelican
Robert Havell, Jr.

Wren's City
Joseph Pennell

Matthew Boulton, F.R.S.
Samuel William Reynolds I

Mademoiselle Bécat at the Cafe des Ambassadeurs (Aux Ambassadeurs: Mlle Bécat)
Edgar Degas

The Lute Player and the Drinker
Wallerant Vaillant

Head of the Executioner
Prince Rupert of the Pfalz

A Spectator (Une spectatrice)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The Standard Bearer
Prince Rupert of the Pfalz

Campfire
George Overbury (Pop) Hart

East Side Interior
Edward Hopper

The Card Players
Jacques Callot

Dog and Cat
Karel Dujardin

Albert, Archduke of Austria
Jan Muller

Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church
John Smith

Portrait of a Man and His Son
Peter Isselburg

Deathbed of a Nun
Lucas Kilian

Joseph Barth
Nikolaus Rhein

The Virgin Appearing to a Lady Penitent
Jaspar Isacsz

Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and His Wife
Lucas Emil Vorsterman

Francis Bacon
George Vertue

David Baker
Jacobus Neeffs

John Bale, Bishop of Ossory
Unknown 19th Century

Thomas Becon, Protestant Divine
Magdalena van de Passe

Roberto, Cardinal Bellarminus
Hieronymus Wierix

Rev. Robert Bolton
John Payne

Anthony Bourbon, Count Mouretan
Pieter de Bailliu

John Sheffield, Third Earl of Mulgrave, FirstDuke of Buckinghamshire
John Smith

John Caius, Co-Founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Magdalena van de Passe

Sir Nicholas Caren of Beddington
John Faber II

Charles I
Hendrik Hondius I

Christian IV, King of Denmark
Crispijn van de Passe I

Christian IV of Denmark
Jan Muller

Clara Maria, Duchess of Brunswick, Wife of August II
Lucas Kilian

Lady Mary Coke, Wife of Edward, Viscount Coke
James MacArdell

Captain Thomas Coram
James MacArdell

Francisco Cornaro
John Smith

Desiderius Erasmus
Hendrick Bary

Isabella d'Este
Lucas Emil Vorsterman

Johan Faulhaber, Mathematician
Lucas Kilian

John Foxe, Martyrologist
Magdalena van de Passe

Frederick Christian III, King of Denmark and Norway
Cornelis Visscher

James Gibbs, Architect
James MacArdell