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.Campbell, 240
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 Paintings
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 32.3 x 21.9 cm (left) 34.4 x 22.8 cm (right) 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 Trinity Altarpiece ca. 1478 – 1479 oil on panel 202 x 100.5 cm (each panel) National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh Left panel of the Deposition Diptych ca. 1480 tempera on canvas The Phoebus Foundation Right panel of the Deposition Diptych ca. 1480 tempera on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1480 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Madonna and child (middle panel of a triptych) ca. 1480/1490 oil on panel Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main
Drawings
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
Work Title Date Technique Dimensions Museum Virgin and Child ca. 1485 oil on panel 32 x 21 cm National Gallery, LondonA Benedictine Monkca. 1478oil on panel25.1 x 18.7 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
References
Sources Campbell, Lorne. The Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Paintings. London, National Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.