Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John

Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John is an oil on panel painting, later transferred to canvas, attributed to the Master of the Grimacing St John, a senior member of the workshop of Jan van Eyck. It was long attributed to Jan's brother Hubert, based on stylistic similarities to portions of the "Adoration of the lamb" passage in the Ghent Altarpiece. The Master of the Grimacing St John is one of only two assistant of van Eyck's whose hand can be identified across several works.^[1] He takes his notname from an imitation stone statue in a grisaille diptych wing panel of St. John the Baptist, opposite a Virgin and Child, and is associated with a pen and pencil drawing of St Paul in Vienna.^[2]

The Master of the Grimacing St John's panel has been in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin since 1897.

Notes

Sources

• Muchembled, Robert. Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, Volume 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-5218-4549-1
• Borchert, Till-Holger. Van Eyck. London: Taschen, 2008. ISBN 3-8228-5687-8

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Jan van Eyck

List of works

Portraits

• Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon c. 1430
• Léal Souvenir (1432)
• Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati (1432)
• Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (1433)
• Arnolfini Portrait (1434)
• Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy c. 1435
• Portrait of Jan de Leeuw (1436)
• Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini c. 1438
• Portrait of Margaret van Eyck (1439)

Single religious
works

• Annunciation (Madrid) c. 1432–1434
• Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata c. 1432–1440
• Annunciation (Washington) c. 1434–1436
• Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (1435)
• Lucca Madonna (1436)
• Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele (1436)
• Madonna in the Church c. 1438–1440
• Madonna at the Fountain (1439)
• Madonna of Jan Vos (1441–1443)

Polyptychs

• Ghent Altarpiece (with Hubert van Eyck, completed 1432)
• Crucifixion and Last Judgement Diptych c. 1430–1440
• Dresden Triptych c. 1437

Illuminated
manuscripts

• Turin–Milan Hours ("Hand G", c. 1420)

Drawings

• Saint Barbara (1437)
• Study for Cardinal Niccolò Albergati c. 1432
• Study for a Crucifixion c. 1440

Lost

• Portrait of Isabella of Portugal c. 1428–29
• Saint Christopher c. 1460
• Woman Bathing c. 1434
• Vera Icon (Head of Christ) (before 1438)
• Madonna of Nicolas van Maelbeke (after 1440)

Contested

• The Three Marys at the Tomb c. 1420s
• The Fountain of Life c. 1432
• Portrait of a Man with Carnation (1435)

Workshop

• Crucifixion c. 1430–1432
• Ince Hall Madonna (after 1434)
• Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John c. 1435
• Saint Jerome in His Study (1442)

Related

• Hubert van Eyck (brother)