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 attributed to him, although a great many others are believed 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 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 works are dated between 1432 and 1439. Ten are dated and signed with a variation of his motto ALS ICH KAN (As I (Eyck) can), a pun on his name, which he typically painted in Greek characters.

Paintings[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Sources[edit]

• Borchert, Till-Holger. Van Eyck. London: Taschen, 2008. ISBN 3-8228-5687-8