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
[edit]Illuminated Manuscripts
[edit]Image | Title | Date | Current location | Notes |
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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
[edit]Image | Title | Date | Current location | Dimensions |
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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
[edit]Image | Title | Date | Notes |
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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
[edit]Image | Title | Date | Current location | Dimensions | Notes |
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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
[edit]Image | Title | Current location | Dimensions |
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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
[edit]- ^ Borchert (2008), 92–94.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Crucifixion ca. 1440 Jan van Eyck". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
Sources
[edit]- Borchert, Till-Holger. Van Eyck. London: Taschen, 2008. ISBN 3-8228-5687-8