This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from February 9 to May 15, 2016. Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise to an unprecedented amount of experimentation. Indeed, innovation became the rule, as artists developed their own unique-and often experimental-processes. The exploration of black media in drawing is inextricably bound up with the exploration of black in prints, and this volume presents an integrated study that rises above specialization in one over the other. This richly illustrated catalogue brings together such diverse artists as Francisco de Goya, Maxime Lalanne, Gustave Courbet, Odilon Redon, and Georges Seurat and explores their inventive works on paper. Sidelining labels like "conservative" or "avant-garde," the essays in this book employ all the tools that art history and modern conservation have given us, inviting the reader to look more broadly at the artists' methods and materials. Artists featured in this volume are: Auguste Allongé, Charles Angrand, Adolphe Appian, Francois Bonvin, Felix Bracquemont, Rudolphe Bresdin, Felix-Hilaire Buhot, Francois Nicolas Chifflart, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Gustave Courbet, Pascale Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, Charles-Francois Daubigny, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Eugene Delacroix, Godefroy Engelman, Hernir Fantin-Latour, Paul Gavarni, Theodore Gericault, Francisco de Goya, Henri-Charles Guerard, , Victor Hugo, Charles-Emile Jacque, Maxime Lalanne, Albert-Charles Lebourg, Ludovic Lepic, Leon-Augustin Lhermitte, Eduard Manet, Charles Meyron, Edmon-Charles-Theodore Milcendu, Jean-Francois Millet, Adolphe-Martial Potemont, Odilon Redon, Theodule Ribot, Georges Seurat,