List of works by Jan van Eyck
This is a list of works by the Early Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. Van Eyck was not a prolific artist, with only twenty-one paintings attributed to him by scholars. 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 20 surviving paintings are confidently attributed to him, as well as the Ghent Altarpiece and the illuminated miniatures of the Turin-Milan Hours, all 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.
Contents
Paintings
Illuminated Manuscripts
Image | Title | Date | Current location | Notes |
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200px | 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 |
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200px | 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 | |
200px | Crucifixion | c. 1440 | Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam | 25.4 cm x 18.7 cm[3] |
Lost Works
Image | Title | Date | Notes |
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Portrait of Isabella of Portugal | c.1428-29 | Known only from copies | |
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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 |
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200px | Vera Icon | before 1438 | Known from three contemporary workshop copies |
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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 |
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200px | 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 |
200px | The Fountain of Life | c. 1432 | Museo del Prado, Madrid | 181 cm c 119 cm | Usually attributed to the workshop of Van Eyck |
200px | 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 |
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200px | 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 | |
200px | 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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Sources
- Borchert, Till-Holger. Van Eyck. London: Taschen, 2008. ISBN 3-8228-5687-8