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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

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

Image Title Date Current location Dimensions
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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 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 Niccolò Albergati - Google Art Project.jpg Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati c. 1431 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 34 cm x 29.5 cm
Jan van Eyck - Léal 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, London 25.5 cm x 19 cm
Van Eyck - Arnolfini Portrait.jpg Arnolfini Portrait 1434 National Gallery, London 82 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 - Baudouin de Lannoy.jpg 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.jpg Portrait of Jan de Leeuw 1436 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 24.5 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 - Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini - WGA7608.jpg Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini 1438 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 29 cm x 20 cm
Jan van Eyck - The Madonna in the Church - Google Art Project.jpg Madonna in the Church c. 1438-40 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 31 cm x 14 cm
Margareta van Eyck.jpg Portrait of Margaret van Eyck 1439 Groeningemuseum, Bruges 41.2 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 City 47.3 cm x 61.3 cm

Illuminated Manuscripts

Image Title Date Current location Notes
14th-century painters - Les Très 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

Image Title Date Current location Dimensions
Jan van Eyck - Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati - Google Art Project.jpg Study for Cardinal Niccolò Albergati c. 1432 Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden 21.4 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

Lost works

Image Title Date Notes
Portrait of Isabella of Portugal van Eyck.jpg Portrait of Isabella of Portugal c.1428-29 Known only from copies
Saint Christopher after Jan van Eyck.jpg
Saint Christopher (after van Eyck) Louvre.jpg
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
Jan van Eyck Vera Icon.jpg Vera Icon before 1438 Known from three contemporary workshop copies
Maelbeke Madonna Triptych After van Eyck.jpg
Maelbeke Madonna After van Eyck.jpg
Madonna of Nicolas van Maelbeke after 1440 Known from an 18th century replica and several
contemporary silverpoint drawings

Contested

Image Title Date Current location Dimensions Notes
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, Rotterdam 71.5 cm x 90 cm Now usually attributed to Hubert van Eyck
La Fuente de la Gracia.jpg The Fountain of Life c. 1432 Museo del Prado, Madrid 181 cm c 119 cm Usually 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, Berlin 40 cm x 31 cm Attributed to Van Eyck or a member of his workshop

Workshop

Image Title Current location Dimensions
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, Berlin 43 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

Sources

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