Black-and-White Paintings for a Guest Room

Paintings with almost no color: grays, browns and blacks that sit quietly on any wall and beside any fabric. A guest room needs a painting that everyone likes: broad landscapes, gardens, flowers, soft seascapes and pastoral scenes in neutral or warm palettes. Here are 100 paintings for a guest room, each with almost no color, with works by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Eugène Boudin.

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Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), Claude Monet 24 × 40 in landscape print (61 × 102 cm), centered 69¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Painting composed of short, dense brushstrokes depicts two domed stacks of wheat that cast long shadows on a field. The angled light indicates either a rising or setting sun.

Claude Monet Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of a beach on a cloudy day with several sailboats on the water, a few rowboats on the shore, and two groupings of people on the sand.

Claude Monet The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, 1867 Art Institute of Chicago

Winter landscape painting with rocky stream lined by orange leafed trees.

John Henry Twachtman Icebound, c. 1889 Art Institute of Chicago

Wheat Fields, Jacob van Ruisdael, ca. 1670, oil on canvas

Jacob van Ruisdael Wheat Fields, ca. 1670 The Met

Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi, Gustave Courbet, 1877, oil on fabric

Gustave Courbet Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi, 1877 Cleveland Museum of Art

Impressionist painting of two girls on balcony, bright flower hat, knitting basket.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881 Art Institute of Chicago

Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather, Claude Monet, 1900, oil on canvas

Claude Monet Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather, 1900 Art Institute of Chicago

The Crystal Palace, Camille Pissarro, 1871, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro The Crystal Palace, 1871 Art Institute of Chicago

A snowy landscape in cool tones featuring a prominent, snow-dusted haystack in reddish brown in front of a row of red-brown trees and low, blue mountains, all beheath a pink-gray strip of sky.

Claude Monet Stack of Wheat, 1890–91 Art Institute of Chicago

View of a village surrounded by hills, fields, and trees, shown from a vantage point above the scene. Subtly rolling hills recede into a bluish gray-ish sky punctuated by white clouds.

Paul Cézanne Auvers, Panoramic View, 1873–75 Art Institute of Chicago

Venice, Palazzo Dario, Claude Monet, 1908, oil on canvas

Claude Monet Venice, Palazzo Dario, 1908 Art Institute of Chicago

The Customs House at Varengeville, Claude Monet, 1897, oil on canvas

Claude Monet The Customs House at Varengeville, 1897 Art Institute of Chicago

Charing Cross Bridge, London, Claude Monet, 1901, oil on canvas

Claude Monet Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1901 Art Institute of Chicago

Among potted flowers and lush foliage, a tiny child in a white dress plays with a hoop. A woman peers at the child from an ivy-covered building at right.

Claude Monet The Artist's House at Argenteuil, 1873 Art Institute of Chicago

A lone wheat stack, in shadow, rests on a snow-covered field that is rendered in shades of white, blue, yellow, and purple. A house can be seen in the distance on the right against the blue hills beyond.

Claude Monet Stack of Wheat (Snow Effect, Overcast Day), 1890–91 Art Institute of Chicago

Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow, Camille Pissarro, 1879, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow, 1879 Art Institute of Chicago

Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île, Claude Monet, 1886, oil on canvas

Claude Monet Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île, 1886 Art Institute of Chicago

The Banks of the Marne in Winter, Camille Pissarro, 1866, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro The Banks of the Marne in Winter, 1866 Art Institute of Chicago

The Loire, Alfred Sisley, 1896, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley The Loire, 1896 Art Institute of Chicago

The Departure of the Boats, Étretat, Claude Monet, 1885, oil on canvas

Claude Monet The Departure of the Boats, Étretat, 1885 Art Institute of Chicago

The Petite Creuse River, Claude Monet, 1889, oil on canvas

Claude Monet The Petite Creuse River, 1889 Art Institute of Chicago

Street in Moret, Alfred Sisley, c. 1890, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley Street in Moret, c. 1890 Art Institute of Chicago

Light-colored snowscape with visible brushstrokes featuring a bridge in front of red and white barns and farmhouses, surrounded by trees.

Claude Monet Sandvika, Norway, 1895 Art Institute of Chicago

Haymaking at Éragny, Camille Pissarro, 1892, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro Haymaking at Éragny, 1892 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of a small pond dense with pink water lilies, their roots visible through the water, a railed footbridge arching over the pond and lush, dark green folliage surrounding it.

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond, 1900 Art Institute of Chicago

A Turn in the Road, Alfred Sisley, 1873, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley A Turn in the Road, 1873 Art Institute of Chicago

Mountain Scene, Albert Bierstadt, 1880–90, oil on paper

Albert Bierstadt Mountain Scene, 1880–90 The Met

Brook and Meadow, John Singer Sargent, ca. 1907, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper

John Singer Sargent Brook and Meadow, ca. 1907 The Met

Rocks at Fontainebleau, Paul Cézanne, 1890s, oil on canvas

Paul Cézanne Rocks at Fontainebleau, 1890s The Met

Boatman among the Reeds, Camille Corot, ca. 1865, oil on canvas

Camille Corot Boatman among the Reeds, ca. 1865 The Met

The Environs of Paris, Camille Corot, 1860s, oil on wood

Camille Corot The Environs of Paris, 1860s The Met

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Winter Afternoon, Camille Pissarro, 1899, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro The Garden of the Tuileries on a Winter Afternoon, 1899 The Met

The Road from Versailles to Louveciennes, Alfred Sisley, probably 1879, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley The Road from Versailles to Louveciennes, probably 1879 The Met

Versailles, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1900–1905, oil on canvas

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Versailles, 1900–1905 The Met

The top three-quarters of this horizontal landscape painting is filled with roiling, deeply shadowed clouds that tower over a line of buffalo crossing a grassy meadow below.

Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm, 1869 National Gallery of Art

A young woman with flushed, peachy skin stands on a rocky shoreline with a fishing net slung over one shoulder in this horizontal painting. Her body faces us, and she looks off and down to our right.

Winslow Homer A Light on the Sea, 1897 National Gallery of Art

A waterway flanked by low banks curves away from us in front of a band of rolling hills in this loosely painted horizontal landscape. The water is created with wide strokes of white, ice blue, or the muted jewel tones of the hills.

Paul Gauguin Brittany Landscape, 1888 National Gallery of Art

This painting depicts a scene where a winding path on the bottom left leads into a wooded area.

Alfred Sisley The Road in the Woods, 1879 National Gallery of Art

We look across a glimmering river toward docks, about a dozen small boats, and a mustard-brown, boxy building under a bridge that crosses the width of the canvas in this horizontal landscape painting.

Claude Monet Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day, c. 1876 National Gallery of Art

An ice- and powder-blue sky swirled with faint peach takes up the top two-thirds of this landscape painting.

Alfred Sisley First Snow at Veneux-Nadon, 1878 National Gallery of Art

Mill of Pont Maupuit, Armand Guillaumin, c. 1900, oil on canvas

Armand Guillaumin Mill of Pont Maupuit, c. 1900 Art Institute of Chicago

Approaching Storm, Eugène Boudin, 1864, oil on cradled panel

Eugène Boudin Approaching Storm, 1864 Art Institute of Chicago

View of Bordeaux, from the Quai des Chartrons, Eugène Boudin, 1874, oil on fabric

Eugène Boudin View of Bordeaux, from the Quai des Chartrons, 1874 Cleveland Museum of Art

View near Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1853, oil on canvas

Jasper Francis Cropsey View near Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, 1853 The Met

Lake George, New York, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Lake George, New York, 1872 The Met

Moonlight, Dwight William Tryon, 1887, oil on wood

Dwight William Tryon Moonlight, 1887 The Met

Moonrise at Sunset, Dwight William Tryon, 1890, oil on wood

Dwight William Tryon Moonrise at Sunset, 1890 The Met

Woodland Road, Meindert Hobbema, ca. 1670, oil on canvas

Meindert Hobbema Woodland Road, ca. 1670 The Met

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