The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment — the diptych

Jan van Eyck (Early Netherlandish, c. 1390–1441)

For Good Friday

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 33.92ab

Medium Oil on canvas, transferred from wood

Dimensions Each 22 1/4 x 7 2/3 in. (56.5 x 19.7 cm)

Credit Fletcher Fund, 1933

Sizes

Wall left 24×36 in + right 24×36 in $323 · $380 bought separately · the painted images hang level

One object, one accession: the Met holds the diptych as 33.92ab — object name 'Painting, diptych', both panels 56.5 × 19.7 cm — and it is sold whole. Two sheets, one edition, $323 — the printed images hang level within 0%.

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On the left the crowd is so thick with horses and hats that Christ is lifted clear of it only by the wood; below, Our Lady has folded into her blue mantle, and the women around her hold her. On the right the same Christ sits in red above the saints with His hands raised, and under an armoured angel a winged skeleton spreads itself over the damned. Jan van Eyck painted the pair about 1436 to 1438, and the Met keeps them as one diptych, each 56.5 by 19.7 cm, which came in through the Fletcher Fund in 1933. The Met reads them as Christ's sacrifice for mankind set beside the Last Judgment: the Crucifixion told as an eyewitness would have seen it, against a far landscape, the Judgment built in three tiers with each figure sized to its importance. First the wood of the Cross, then the throne.

The Met's tombstone gives one measurement for both — 'Each 22 1/4 x 7 2/3 in. (56.5 x 19.7 cm)' — so the panels are level on the object itself, and because both are height-limited on every sheet the printed images are level too, at any shared size. Order follows the museum's own title and the accession letters: the Crucifixion is 33.92a, the Last Judgment 33.92b.

Provenance of the files
Held by	The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · 33.92ab the museum’s record
Source file	Wikimedia Commons · Jan van Eyck - Crucifixion.jpg
Licence	Public domain
Panel · left	The Crucifixion — 4,208 × 12,029 px
Panel · right	The Last Judgment — 3,954 × 11,720 px
Chain	Each panel taken from the source file above and cut to its own painted field; held as 2 print masters.

Sources

Printed on demand as one edition. The whole image is printed on every sheet — never cropped to fit — so each panel carries an archival margin.