Crucifixion is a recently discovered early-15th-century drawing of the death of Jesus attributed to Jan van Eyck or his workshop,^[2] now in the collection of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.^[3] It is variously dated to the early 1430s, implying an original van Eyck, or c. 1440, making it a pastiche by a workshop member after Jan's death.^[2] The only other known van Eyck drawing is the Study for Cardinal Niccolò Albergati if the 1437 Saint Barbara is excluded as an unfinished painting, although there are similarities between the two; especially in its perspective, the angle of the observer's point of view, and the shadings of the rock formations. The quality of draftsmanship is of the first rate, and it is perhaps the most elaborate and complex surviving drawing from the 16th century.^[2]

It is executed in gold and silver stylus, pen and brush and lead slate pencil.^[4] It is in poor condition, being covered in yellowish varnish which has damaged both the paper and drawing. The drawing is linked to the left hand panel the New York Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych, which is generally, but not always, attributed to Jan; likely workshop members completed many passages on the right hand frame. As such this drawing is either an original preparatory study, or a workshop pastiche by an associate created for commercial sale.^[2]

It shows a mass of people gather around a crucifixion scene, with Christ's followers grieving in the foreground (though they are thinly described compared to the other figures), soldiers and spectators hanging around in the mid-ground and a portrayal of three crucified bodies in the upper-ground. Both works contain a number of similarly depicted and positions figures, share the same steep perspective, with the city of Jerusalem can be seen in the distance, though at a much lower angle here than in the finished diptych.

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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)