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

Landscape with Castle Ruin
Richard Parkes Bonington

Reclining Nude with Slave
Marcel Meys

Teenage girl with bottle curls
Rufus Anson

Welcoming Descent of Jizō
Unknown artist

Gothic Bible (Vulgate)
Unknown artist

Architectural Vessel
Unknown artist

Preparation for the Crucifixion
Unknown artist

Portrait of a Man
Unknown artist

The Secret Five Bodhisattvas (Gohimitsu Bosatsu)
Unknown artist

Virgin and Child with Saints
Unknown artist

Kasuga Deer Mandala
Unknown artist

Rooster
Unknown artist

Shōtoku Taishi at Sixteen
Unknown artist

A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto); calligraphy of a quatrain (verso)
Unknown artist

Salome Receiving John the Baptist’s Head on a Platter (folio 112 verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
Unknown artist

Jesus being portrayed by King Abgar’s painter (folio 143 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
Unknown artist

Maharaja Abhai Singh of Marwar (reigned 1724–49), Equestrian, Watching Girls Swinging at the Teej Festival
Unknown artist

A heroine waiting for her lover: Vasakasajja Nayika, from the "Nurpur" Rasikapriya
Unknown artist

Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan
Unknown artist

Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana visit the hermitage of the sage Bharadvaja at Prayaga, from Chapter 48 of the Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)
Unknown artist

Standing Ksitigarbha
Unknown artist

A View of the Vestibule of St. Peter at Rome
Georges Francois Blondel

A View of the Stairs of the Vatican
Georges Francois Blondel

A View of the Inside of a Church
Georges Francois Blondel

Lotus Sutra with a Frontispiece
Unknown artist

Krishna’s longing for Radha, from a Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherd) of Jayadeva
Unknown artist

Goddess Mangala, from a Devi Series
Unknown artist

Greek Pirates Attacking a Turkish Vessel
Unknown artist

The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover: Utka Nayika
Unknown artist

Krishna Steals the Clothes of the Milkmaids and Expounds on the Virtue of Trees, from a Braj Bhagavata Purana
Unknown artist

Two Putti
Unknown artist

Footed Bowl
Unknown artist

Kannon
Unknown artist

A House Burgled at Night
Unknown artist

Pietà
Unknown artist

Sri Nathaji
Unknown artist

Akrura and Kritavarma flee Dvaraka, page from the "Large Basohli Bhagavata Purana"
Unknown artist

Gothic Marriage Chest
Unknown artist

Portrait of a Young Man
Unknown artist

Radha and Krishna in the Rain
Unknown artist

The Attractions of Music
Unknown artist

Virahini Nayika, Love-Torn Heroine
Unknown artist

Virgin and Child
Unknown artist

Welcoming Descent of Amida Buddha (Raigō)
Unknown artist

The Dragon
Charles de Sousy Ricketts

Portrait of Baron Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon
Unknown artist

Painted Door
Unknown artist

Radha and Krishna Embracing, Leaf from a Gita Govinda
Unknown artist

Seated Female Figure
Unknown artist

Stopham Bridge
Edward Louis Laurenson

A Man with a Ham, Just Cut
Cornelis van Dalen

Text, Folio 58 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Unknown artist

Historiated Initial (R) Excised from a Gradual: The Three Marys at the Tomb
Unknown artist

Decorated Initial (P) (Excised from a Bible?)
Unknown artist

Landscape
George Percival Gaskell

Horse
Franz Marc

The Witch's House in Salem
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Mielatz

The Chimera with Green Eyes Turns, Bays
Odilon Redon

Pomona Britannica: No. 17 - Plums
George Brookshaw

Pomona Britannica: No. 82 - Pears
George Brookshaw