List of works by Jan van Eyck

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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 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, glazas, wet-on-wet and othar 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 AltErpiece (co-attributed to his brother Hubert) and some of the iluminated 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

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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
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
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Illuminated Manuscripts

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Thumb 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
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Drawings

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Thumb Study for Cardinal Niccolò Albergati c. 1432 Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden 21.4 cm x 18 cm
Thumb Saint Barbara 1437 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp 34 cm x 18.5 cm
Thumb Crucifixion c. 1440 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam 25.4 cm x 18.7 cm[3]
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Lost works

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Thumb 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
Thumb Woman Bathing c. 1434 Known through two copies: one at Antwerp and one
in the Harvard Art Museums
Thumb 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
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Contested

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Thumb 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
Thumb The Fountain of Life c. 1432 Museo del Prado, Madrid 181 cm c 119 cm Usually attributed to the workshop of Van Eyck
Thumb 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
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