List of works by Jan van Eyck

This is a complete list of the paintings, drawings and illuminated miniatures attributed to the Early Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. Only some twenty paintings are currently attributed to him; a great many others are assumed to be either lost or destroyed.

Van Eyck was the first major European artist to utilise oil painting. Although the use of oil paint preceded Van Eyck by many centuries, his virtuosic handling and manipulation and 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").

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Title	Date	Current location	Dimensions	Signatures or inscriptions
Ghent Altarpiece	c. 1420-32	St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent	3.4 m × 5.2 m, open view 3.4 m × 2.23 m, closed view	Chronogram, poetry in Latin. Found in 1832. Possibly not original, post-mortem (2nd half of 16th century)^[2]^[3]^[4]: Pictor Hubertus e Eyck. maior que nemo repertus Incepit . pondus . q[ue] Johannes arte secundus [Frater] perfecit. Judoci Vijd prece fretus VersU seXta MaI . Vos CoLLoCat aCta tUerI (The painter Hubert van Eyck, greater than whom no one was found, began this work. His brother Jan, second in art, having completed this difficult task at the request of Joos Vijd, invites you by this verse to see the result on 6 May [1432]). Number 1432 is taken from chronogram.
Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon	c. 1430	Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu	22.5 cm × 16.6 cm	The painting is not signed or dated by van Eyck. Bears an imitation of the "AD" and date 1490 by an unknown hand.^[5]
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata	c. 1430-32	Sabauda Gallery, Turin	29.3 cm × 33.4 cm
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata	1430-32	Philadelphia Museum of Art^[6]	12.7 cm × 14.6 cm
Crucifixion and Last Judgement	c. 1430-40	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City	56.5 cm × 19.5 cm each	Not signed.
Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati	c. 1431	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna	34 cm × 29.5 cm
Léal Souvenir	1432	National Gallery, London	33.3 cm × 18.9 cm	On the parapet, imitation of carving, using Greek letters (with errors), and in Latin: TYΜ.ωΘΕΟϹ LEAL SOVVENIR ACTU[M] AN[N]O D[OMI]NI.1432.10. DIE OCTOBRIS.A.IOH[ANNE] DE EYCK (Timotheos Loyal Remembrance, or Faithful Souvenir Finished in the year of our Lord 1432 on the 10th day of October by Jan van Eyck)
Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)	1433	National Gallery, London	25.5 cm × 19 cm	Imitation of carving on the top of the original frame in Middle Dutch but using pseudo-Greek letters: AΛΣ IXH XAN (as I can) On the lower frame in Latin: JOHES DE EYCK ME FECIT ANO MCCCC.33. 21. OCTOBRIS (Jan van Eyck made me on 21 October 1433)
Arnolfini Portrait	1434	National Gallery, London	82 cm × 59.5 cm	On the wall above the mirror in Latin: JOHANNES DE EYCK FUIT HIC 1434 (Jan van Eyck was here 1434)
Annunciation	1434-36	National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.	90.2 cm × 34.1 cm
Annunciation	1434-36	Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid	39 cm × 24 cm
Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy	1435	Gemäldegalerie, Berlin	26 cm × 20 cm
Madonna of Chancellor Rolin	1435	Louvre, Paris	66 cm × 62 cm	Old descriptions tell that the painting originally had a wooden frame painted illusionistically with inscriptions seemingly carved. Possibly with signature.
Portrait of Jan de Leeuw	1436	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna	24.5 cm × 19 cm	The panel's borders with painted letters in the Flemish vernacular. The numerals are rendered in Arabic: IAN DE {LEEUW} OP SANT ORSELEN DACH / DAT CLAER EERST MET OGHEN SACH, 1401 GHECONTERFEIT NV HEEFT MI IAN VAN EYCK WEL BLIICT WANNEERT BEGA(N) 1436 (Jan De [Leeuw], who First Opened His Eyes on the Feast of St Ursula [21 October], 1401. Now Jan Van Eyck Has Painted Me, You Can See When He Began it. 1436). The word "Leeuw" is substituted for a pictogram of a lion (sitter's surname in Dutch). The inscription seems to contain three chronograms (the year of completion, the year of the sitter's birth and his age).
Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele	1436	Groeningemuseum, Bruges	1.22 m × 1.57 m	Lower border of the frame: HOC OP ' FECIT MAGR GEORGI' DE PALA HUI' CANONI P IOHANNE DE EYCK PICTORE. ET FUNDAVIT HIC DUAS CAPELLIAS DE I GMO CHORI DOMINI . M . CCCC . XXXIIIJ . PL AU . 1436 (Master Joris van der Paele, canon of this church, commissioned this work from the artist Jan van Eyck and founded two chaplaincies, located in the choir, in 1434. However, he completed it in 1436)
Dresden Triptych	1437	Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden	33 cm × 27.5 cm	Found after 1959 during restauration n the inner moulding of the central frame in front of the tiled floor: JOHANNES DE EYCK ME FECIT ET CÓ(M)PLEVIT ANNO DOMINI MCCCCXXXVII (1437). ALC IXH XAN
Lucca Madonna	c. 1437	Städel Museum, Frankfurt	65.7 cm × 49.6 cm
Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini	1438	Gemäldegalerie, Berlin	29 cm × 20 cm	Original frame lost, possibly considered signature.
Madonna in the Church	c. 1438-40	Gemäldegalerie, Berlin	31 cm × 14 cm	Was stolen in 1877 and soon returned, but without its original inscribed frame, which was never recovered.
Portrait of Margaret van Eyck	1439	Groeningemuseum, Bruges	41.2 cm × 34.6 cm	On the top and bottom parts of the frame: CO[N]IV[N]X M[EV]S IOH[ANN]ES ME C[OM]PLEVIT AN[N]O . 1439°.17°IVNIJ ETAS MEA TRIGINTA TRIV[M] AN[N]ORV[M] AΛC. IXH.XAN (My husband Johannes completed me in the year 1439 on 17 June, at the age of 33. As I can)
Madonna at the Fountain	1439	Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp	19 cm × 12 cm	On the frame: ALS IXH CAN JOHES DE EYCK ME FECIT + [COM]PLEVIT ANNO 1439
Madonna of Jan Vos	1441-43	Frick Collection, New York City	47.3 cm × 61.3 cm

Title	Date	Current location	Dimensions
Study for Cardinal Niccolò Albergati	c. 1432	Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden	21.4 cm × 18 cm
Saint Barbara	1437	Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp	34 cm × 18.5 cm (signed on the frame JOH(ANN)ES DE EYCK ME FECIT 1437)
Crucifixion	c. 1440	Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam	25.4 cm × 18.7 cm^[7]

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

Title	Date	Current location	Dimensions	Notes
The Three Marys at the Tomb	c. 1410-26	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam	71.5 cm × 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 × 31 cm	Attributed to Van Eyck or a member of his workshop

Title	Current location	Dimensions
Crucifixion (after van Eyck?)	Ca' d'Oro, Venice	46 cm × 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 × 26 cm
Saint Jerome in his Study	Detroit Institute of Arts	20.6 x 13.3

List of works by Jan van Eyck

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