Color family · 6 swatches

Black

Black makes up 16.6% of all the painted area in the collection.

Used most by

• Caravaggio 57.7%
• Rembrandt 53.2%
• Georges de La Tour 49.9%
• Rachel Ruysch 45.9%
• Francisco de Zurbarán 45.6%
• Francisco Goya 44.4%
• Jacques-Louis David 40.8%
• Théodore Géricault 40.7%
• Thomas Eakins 39.1%
• Gustave Courbet 38.1%
• Artemisia Gentileschi 35.8%
• Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun 35.6%

Works that are at least 8% black

• Joseph the Carpenter, 1642
• E IV (Construction VII), 1922
• Portrait of a Kleptomaniac, 1820s
• Fishermen at Sea, 1796
• The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1609
• Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Slab, 1716
• Las Meninas, 1656
• Supper at Emmaus, 1601
• The Gross Clinic, 1875
• Black Cross, New Mexico, 1929
• The Death of Socrates, 1787
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665
• Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819
• The Potato Eaters, 1885
• The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632
• The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 1608
• Lady with an Ermine, 1490
• Woman with a Parrot, 1866
• Roses, Convolvulus, Poppies, and Other Flowers in an Urn on a Stone Ledge, 1688
• Mother Lacing Her Bodice beside a Cradle, 1661
• The Astronomer, 1664
• Self-Portrait with Fur-Trimmed Robe, 1500
• Return of the Prodigal Son, 1668
• Marie Antoinette with a Rose, 1783
• Vampire, 1893
• La fornarina, c. 1518–1520
• The Elevation of the Cross, 1609
• Dead City III, 1911
• The Night Watch, 1642
• Concentric Group, 1925
• Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1613
• The Clothed Maja, 1800
• Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion, 1634
• Self-Portrait as Bacchus, 1595
• The Proposition, 1631
• The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, 1635
• Belshazzar's Feast, 1636
• Portrait of a Lady in Blue, 1780
• Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1599
• Agnus Dei, 1635
• The Madonna in the Church, 1440
• The Jewish Bride, c. 1667
• Black Square (1915), 1915
• Arnolfini Portrait, 1434
• Primavera, 1480s
• Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888
• Death and the Woodcutter, c. 1859
• The Lock, c. 1777
• The Death of Marat, 1793
• The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633
• The Stolen Kiss, 1790
• Jealousy, 1895
• The Kiss, 1897
• The Praying Jew, 1923
• The Lady of Shalott, 1888
• The Ambassadors, 1533
• The Descent from the Cross, 1440s
• The Feast of Saint Nicholas, c. 1665
• The Chess Players, 1876
• A Wooded Marsh, 1665