List of works by Hugo van der Goes

Summary

The following is an incomplete list of paintings and drawings by the Early Netherlandish painter Hugo van der Goes. Attribution of his work has been difficult for art historians, and a great many works though, in the early to mid-20th century, to be by his hand are now accepted to be copies by members of his workshop or by followers. Often, when trying to establish attribution, if there was no documentary evidence, comparisons were made to his great 1470 Portinari Altarpiece, mentioned by Vasari.[1]

Hugo appears to have left many drawings, and either from these or the paintings themselves followers made many copies of compositions that have not survived from his own hand.

Works edit

Paintings edit

Work Title Date Technique Dimensions Museum
  Monforte Altarpiece ca. 1470 oil on panel 147x242 cm + 9x76,3 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
  The Death of the Virgin ca. 1470 oil on panel 147,8 x 122,5 cm Groeningemuseum Bruges
  Portinari Altarpiece ca. 1470 oil on panel 253 x 586 cm Uffizi, Florence
    Vienna Diptych ca. 1475 oil on panel 32,3x21,9 cm (links) en
34,4x22,8 cm (rechts)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  St Hippolyte Triptych (central panel attributed to Dieric Bouts) ca. 1475 oil on panel 92 x 41 cm (linkerluik) St. Salvator's Cathedral, Bruges
  Portrait of a donor with John the Baptist ca. 1475 olieverf op paneel 32 x 22.5 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
  Portrait of a man ca. 1475 oil on panel oval 31,8 x 26 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  A Benedictine Monk ca. 1478 oil on panel 25.1 x 18.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  Trinity Altarpiece ca. 1478 – 1479 oil on panel 4 maal 202x100.5 cm National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
  Left panel of the Deposition Diptych ca. 1480 tempera on canvas
53,5x38,5 cm
Private collection, New York
  Right panel of the Deposition Diptych ca. 1480 tempera on canvas
53,5x38,5 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
  Nativity with Shepherds ca. 1480 oil on panel
97x245 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
  Madonna and child (middle panel of a triptych) ca. 1480/1490 oil on panel 30 x 23 cm Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main

Drawings edit

Work Title Date Technique Dimensions Museum
  Jacob and Rachel ca. 1470 – 1475 Pen and wash heightened with white on gray paper 338x572 mm Christ Church, Oxford
  Joseph and Asenath ca. 1475 Pen and yellowish-brown and dark brown ink, softly outlined in pen, remains of black stylus preliminary drawing (chalk?) on paper max. diameter 214 mm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  Christ on the cross ca. 1475 – 1480 Brush and brown pigment, heightened with white, on grey-brown-violet grounded paper 258x204 mm Windsor Castle

Workshop edit

Work Title Date Technique Dimensions Museum
  Virgin and Child ca. 1485 32x21 mm National Gallery, London

References edit

  1. ^ Campbell, 240

Sources edit

  • Campbell, Lorne. The Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Paintings. London, National Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-300-07701-7