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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.

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 <small>ALS ICH KAN</small> ("As I can").

Paintings

Illuminated Manuscripts

Drawings

Lost works

Contested

Workshop

References

Sources

  • Acres, Alfred. "Jan van Eyck: within His Art". London: Reaktion Books, 2013.
  • Borchert, Till-Holger. Van Eyck. London: Taschen, 2008.