List of works by Jan van Eyck

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This is a complete 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.

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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

ImageTitleDateCurrent locationDimensions
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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
Jan van Eyck - Man in a Blue Cap (c.1430).jpg Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon c. 1430 Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu 22.5 cm x 16.6 cm
Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata Turin.jpg Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata c. 1430-32 Sabauda Gallery, Turin 29.3 cm x 33.4 cm
Attributed to Jan van Eyck, Netherlandish (active Bruges), c. 1395 - 1441 - Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata - Google Art Project.jpg Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata 1430-32 Philadelphia Museum of Art [2] 12.7 cm x 14.6 cm
Van Eyck - The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment.jpg Crucifixion and Last Judgement c. 1430-40 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 56.5 cm x 19.5 cm each
Jan van Eyck - Kardinal Niccolo Albergati - Google Art Project.jpg Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati c. 1431 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 34 cm x 29.5 cm
Jan van Eyck - Leal Souvenir - National Gallery, London.jpg Léal Souvenir 1432 National Gallery, London 33.3 cm x 18.9 cm
Portrait of a Man in a Turban (Jan van Eyck) with frame.jpg Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) 1433 National Gallery, London25.5 cm x 19 cm
Van Eyck - Arnolfini Portrait.jpg Arnolfini Portrait 1434 National Gallery, London82 cm x 59.5 cm
Annunciation - Jan van Eyck - 1434 - NG Wash DC.jpg Annunciation 1434-36 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 90.2 cm x 34.1 cm
Jan van Eyck, Around 1390-1441 - The Annuciation Diptych - Google Art Project.jpg Annunciation 1434-36 Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid 39 cm x 24 cm
Jan van Eyck (um 1390-1400 - 1441) - Baudouin de Lannoy - 525G - Gemaldegalerie.jpg Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy 1435 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 26 cm x 20 cm
The Virgin with Chancellor Rolin by Jan van Eyck (Louvre).webp Madonna of Chancellor Rolin 1435 Louvre, Paris 66 cm x 62 cm
Portrait of jan de leeuw.jpg Portrait of Jan de Leeuw 1436 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna24.5 cm x 19 cm
La Madone au Chanoine Van der Paele.jpg Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele 1436 Groeningemuseum, Bruges 1.22 m x 1.57 m
Jan van Eyck - Triptych of Mary and Child, St. Michael, and the Catherine - Google Art Project.jpg Dresden Triptych 1437 Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden 33 cm x 27.5 cm
Jan van Eyck - Lucca Madonna - Google Art Project.jpg Lucca Madonna c. 1437 Städel Museum, Frankfurt 65.7 cm x 49.6 cm
Jan van Eyck - Bildnis eines Mannes (aus der Familie Arnolfini), 1438 - 1441, 523A.jpg Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini 1438 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin29 cm x 20 cm
Jan van Eyck - The Madonna in the Church - Google Art Project.jpg Madonna in the Church c. 1438-40 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin31 cm x 14 cm
Margareta van Eyck.jpg Portrait of Margaret van Eyck 1439 Groeningemuseum, Bruges41.2 cm x 34.6 cm
Eyck fountain Antwerpen.jpg Madonna at the Fountain 1439 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp 19 cm x 12 cm
Jan van Eyck - Virgin and Child, with Saints and Donor - 1441 - Frick Collection.jpg Madonna of Jan Vos 1441-43 Frick Collection, New York City47.3 cm x 61.3 cm

Illuminated Manuscripts

ImageTitleDateCurrent locationNotes
14th-century painters - Les Tres Belles Heures de Notre Dame de Jean de Berry - WGA16014.jpg 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

ImageTitleDateCurrent locationDimensions
Jan van Eyck - Portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati - Google Art Project.jpg Study for Cardinal Niccolò Albergati c. 1432 Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden21.4 cm x 18 cm
Jan van Eyck 011.jpg Saint Barbara 1437 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp 34 cm x 18.5 cm
Van Eyck Drawing Crucifixion.jpg Crucifixion c. 1440 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam 25.4 cm x 18.7 cm [3]

Lost works

ImageTitleDateNotes
Portrait of Isabella of Portugal van Eyck.jpg Portrait of Isabella of Portugal c.1428-29Known only from copies
Saint Christopher after Jan van Eyck.jpg
Saint Christopher (after van Eyck) Louvre.jpg
Saint Christopher UnknownKnown through two copies: a painting held at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art and a drawing held by the Louvre
After van Eyck Woman at Her Toilet (MA).jpg Woman Bathing c. 1434Known through two copies: one at Antwerp and one
in the Harvard Art Museums
Jan van Eyck Vera Icon.jpg Vera Icon before 1438Known from three contemporary workshop copies
Maelbeke Madonna Triptych After van Eyck.jpg
Maelbeke Madonna After van Eyck.jpg
Madonna of Nicolas van Maelbeke after 1440Known from an 18th century replica and several
contemporary silverpoint drawings

Contested

ImageTitleDateCurrent locationDimensionsNotes
Hubert van Eyck or Jan van Eyck or both - The Three Marys at the Tomb - Google Art Project.jpg The Three Marys at the Tomb c. 1410-26 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam71.5 cm x 90 cmNow usually attributed to Hubert van Eyck
La Fuente de la Gracia.jpg The Fountain of Life c. 1432 Museo del Prado, Madrid181 cm c 119 cmUsually attributed to the workshop of Van Eyck
Jan van Eyck (successors) - Man with pinks - Google Art Project.jpg Portrait of a Man with Carnation c. 1436 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin40 cm x 31 cmAttributed to Van Eyck or a member of his workshop

Workshop

ImageTitleCurrent locationDimensions
Crocifissione di Jan van Eyck,2.JPG Crucifixion (after van Eyck?) Ca' d'Oro, Venice 46 cm x 31 cm
Jan van Eyck 075.jpg Ince Hall Madonna (Virgin and Child Reading) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 26.5 x 19.5
Crucifixion (after van Eyck).jpg Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John Gemäldegalerie, Berlin43 cm x 26 cm
Jan van eyck, san girolamo nello studio, detroit.JPG Saint Jerome in his Study Detroit Institute of Arts 20.6 x 13.3

References

  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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