List of works by Jan van Eyck

This is a list of works by the Early Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. He was not a prolific artist; only twenty paintings are attributed to him, although a great many others are believed to be destroyed or lost.

Van Eyck was the first major European artist to utilize oil painting. Though the use of oil paint preceded Van Eyck by many centuries, his virtuosic handling and manipulation of oil paint, use of multiple half-transparent layers of paint, glazes, wet-on-wet and other techniques was such that Giorgio Vasari started the myth that Van Eyck had invented oil painting[1]

About twenty surviving paintings are confidently attributed to him, as well as the Ghent Altarpiece (co-attributed to his brother Hubert) and some of the illuminated miniatures of the Turin-Milan Hours. All panels are dated between 1432 and 1439. Ten works are dated and signed with a variation of his motto ALS ICH KAN ("As I can").

Paintings

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Image Title Date Current location Dimensions
 
 
Ghent Altarpiece c. 1420-32 St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent 3.4 m x 5.2 m, open view
3.4 m x 2.23 m, closed view
  Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon c. 1430 Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu 22.5 cm x 16.6 cm
  Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata c. 1430-32 Sabauda Gallery, Turin 29.3 cm x 33.4 cm
  Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata 1430-32 Philadelphia Museum of Art[2] 12.7 cm x 14.6 cm
  Crucifixion and Last Judgement c. 1430-40 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 56.5 cm x 19.5 cm each
  Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati c. 1431 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 34 cm x 29.5 cm
  Léal Souvenir 1432 National Gallery, London 33.3 cm x 18.9 cm
  Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) 1433 National Gallery, London 25.5 cm x 19 cm
  Arnolfini Portrait 1434 National Gallery, London 82 cm x 59.5 cm
  Annunciation 1434-36 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 90.2 cm x 34.1 cm
  Annunciation 1434-36 Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid 39 cm x 24 cm
  Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy 1435 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 26 cm x 20 cm
  Madonna of Chancellor Rolin 1435 Louvre, Paris 66 cm x 62 cm
  Portrait of Jan de Leeuw 1436 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 24.5 cm x 19 cm
  Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele 1436 Groeningemuseum, Bruges 1.22 m x 1.57 m
  Dresden Triptych 1437 Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden 33 cm x 27.5 cm
  Lucca Madonna c. 1437 Städel Museum, Frankfurt 65.7 cm x 49.6 cm
  Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini 1438 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 29 cm x 20 cm
  Madonna in the Church c. 1438-40 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 31 cm x 14 cm
  Portrait of Margaret van Eyck 1439 Groeningemuseum, Bruges 41.2 cm x 34.6 cm
  Madonna at the Fountain 1439 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp 19 cm x 12 cm
  Madonna of Jan Vos 1441-43 Frick Collection, New York City 47.3 cm x 61.3 cm

Illuminated Manuscripts

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Image Title Date Current location Notes
  Turin-Milan Hours c. 1420 Turin City Museum of Ancient Art The miniatures done by Hand "G", of which three survive are generally believed to be by either Jan van Eyck or his brother Hubert

Drawings

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Image Title Date Current location Dimensions
  Study for Cardinal Niccolò Albergati c. 1432 Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden 21.4 cm x 18 cm
  Saint Barbara 1437 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp 34 cm x 18.5 cm
  Crucifixion c. 1440 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam 25.4 cm x 18.7 cm[3]

Lost works

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Image Title Date Notes
  Portrait of Isabella of Portugal c.1428-29 Known only from copies
 
 
Saint Christopher Unknown Known through two copies: a painting held at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art and a drawing held by the Louvre
  Woman Bathing c. 1434 Known through two copies: one at Antwerp and one
in the Harvard Art Museums
  Vera Icon before 1438 Known from three contemporary workshop copies
 
 
Madonna of Nicolas van Maelbeke after 1440 Known from an 18th century replica and several
contemporary silverpoint drawings

Contested

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Image Title Date Current location Dimensions Notes
  The Three Marys at the Tomb c. 1410-26 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 71.5 cm x 90 cm Now usually attributed to Hubert van Eyck
  The Fountain of Life c. 1432 Museo del Prado, Madrid 181 cm c 119 cm Usually attributed to the workshop of Van Eyck
  Portrait of a Man with Carnation c. 1436 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 40 cm x 31 cm Attributed to Van Eyck or a member of his workshop

Workshop

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Image Title Current location Dimensions
  Crucifixion (after van Eyck?) Ca' d'Oro, Venice 46 cm x 31 cm
  Ince Hall Madonna (Virgin and Child Reading) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 26.5 x 19.5
  Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 43 cm x 26 cm
  Saint Jerome in his Study Detroit Institute of Arts 20.6 x 13.3

References

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  1. ^ Borchert (2008), 92–94.
  2. ^ Atkins, Christopher D. M. "Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata by Jan van Eyck (cat. 314)". The John G. Johnson Collection: A History and Selected Works. A Philadelphia Museum of Art free digital publication.
  3. ^ "The Crucifixion ca. 1440 Jan van Eyck". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 29 February 2020.

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