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
Marjorie and Little Edmund
Edmund C. Tarbell, born West Groton, MA 1862-died New Castle, NH 1938
La Tour de Solidor at St. Severin, Normandy
Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917
High Cliff, Coast of Maine
Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910
Lady of the Frothingham Family
Moses B. Russell, born Woodstock, NH ca. 1810-died 1884
Captain Charles McKnight
Jacob Frymire, born Lancaster County, PA ca. 1765-died Hamilton Township, PA 1822
Ko-mán-i-kin, Big Wave, an Old and Distinguished Chief
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872
Study of a Seated Woman
Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931
Composition, Italian Scenery
George Loring Brown, born Boston, MA 1814-died Malden, MA 1889
Cunivo Woman
Unidentified (South American?)
Notre Dame
H. Lyman Saÿen, born Philadelphia, PA 1875-died Philadelphia, PA 1918
Frank Brett Noyes
Ossip Perelma, 1876 - 23 May 1949
George Washington
Unidentified Artist
Prentiss Taylor
Charles Webster Hawthorne, 1872 - 1930
George Washington
Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788
John Rutledge
John Trumbull, 6 Jun 1756 - 10 Nov 1843
Tenskwatawa
Henry Inman, 28 Oct 1801 - 17 Jan 1846
Henry Cabot Lodge
John Singer Sargent, 12 Jan 1856 - 15 Apr 1925
Joel Chandler Harris
Lucy May Stanton, 22 May 1875 - 19 Mar 1931
Abraham Lincoln
John Henry Brown, 1818 - 1891
Charles Doolittle Walcott
Samantha Littlefield Huntley, 1865 - 1949
James Smithson
Henri-Joseph Johns, 1761 - 1843
John Jay Chapman
Alfred Quinton Collins, 1862 - 1903
Gilbert Stuart
Sarah Goodridge, 1788 - 1853
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Maximilien Colin, 1862 - 1894
William Shirley
Thomas Hudson, 1701 - 26 Jan 1779
Louis Brandeis
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
Robert William Vonnoh, 17 Sep 1858 - 28 Dec 1933
Ben Lindsey
Mary Frances Schreiber, active c. 1940
Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas Le Clear, 11 Mar 1818 - 26 Nov 1882
Joseph Henry
Thomas Le Clear, 11 Mar 1818 - 26 Nov 1882
Charles Greeley Abbot
Samantha Littlefield Huntley, 1865 - 1949
William Linn
John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840
George Caleb Bingham Self-Portrait
George Caleb Bingham, 20 Mar 1811 - 7 Jul 1879
George Washington
Ellen Wallace Sharples, 1769 - 1849
Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine)
Stanton MacDonald-Wright, 8 Jul 1890 - 22 Aug 1973
James Buchanan Duke
John Da Costa, 1867 - May 1931
Adolfo Müller-Ury Self-portrait
Adolfo Müller-Ury, 29 Mar 1862 - 7 Jul 1947
Jefferson Davis
George Lethbridge Saunders, 1807 - 25 Aug 1863
Andrew Johnson
Washington Bogart Cooper, 1802 - 1889
Samuel Francis Du Pont
Daniel Huntington, 14 Oct 1816 - 18 Apr 1906
The poet Sundar Das before Emperor Shah Jahan, folio from a <em>Sundar Shringar</em>
Attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778)
Six Immortals of Poetry: Fun'ya no Yasuhide
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)
Portrait of Whistler with a Hat
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Butterflies and grasses
Attributed to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)
The Blue Girl (fragment): Yellow and Blue
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Running water, autumn grasses and flowers
Ogata Korin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716)
Blossoming wisteria on a bamboo trellis
Style of Kano Eitoku 狩野永徳 (1543-1590)
Carp 鯉図
Kuroda Toko 黒田稲皐 (1785-1846)
Five hundred Luohan
Daohong (early 15th century)
The Sea and Sand
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
A Priest (Kōbō Daishi) practicing the Tantra, a demon before him, and a wolf behind
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)
The pilgrimage of Sudhana
Sui Chanshi (15th century)
Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Gathering Storm
Albert Bierstadt, American, b. Solingen, Germany, 1830–1902
Study for "Portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing"
Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916
Mountain Stream (Three Nudes At A Mountain Creek)
Louis Eilshemius, American, b. Arlington, New Jersey, 1864–1941
Nocturne, Venice
Arthur B. Carles, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1882–1952
Character Study
Toby E. Rosenthal
Dirge of the Three Queens
Edwin Austin Abbey
James McNeill Whistler
John White Alexander