Initial Selection

The initial selection for the Canon made by the CODART program committee:

      1. Elias Scerpswert (? – ?), Bust of St Frederick, 1362, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      2. Jacques de Baerze (active before 1384 – after 1399), Melchior Broederlam (ca. 1355 – ca. 1411), Retable of the Crucifixion, 1391 — 1399, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Dijon
      3. Claes Sluter (ca. 1360 – 1405/1406), The Well of Moses, 1395 — 1404, Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon
      4. Limbourg Brothers (ca. 1385 – 1416), Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, ca. 1412 — 1416, Musée Condé, Chantilly
      5. Jan van Eyck (1390/1399 – 1441), Hubert van Eyck (1366/1370 – 1426), Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, 1432, St Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent
      6. Jan van Eyck (1390/1399 – 1441), Portrait of Giovanni(?) Arnolfini and his Wife, 1434, The National Gallery, London
      7. Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400 – 1464), Descent from the Cross, 1443, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
      8. Dieric Bouts (1410/1420 – 1475), Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament, 1464 — 1468, St Peter’s Church, Leuven
      9. Gérard Loyet (active 1466 – 1502/1503), Reliquary of Charles the Bold (with St. George), 1467 — 1471, Cathedral of St Paul, Liège
      10. Hugo van der Goes (ca. 1440 – 1482), The Adoration of the Kings, Known as ‘Monforte Altar’, ca. 1470, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
      11. Petrus Christus (ca. 1415/1420 – 1475/1476), Portrait of a Young Girl, 1470, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
      12. Adriaen van Wesel (ca. 1417 – after 1490), Fragments from the Marian Altar of the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, ca. 1475 — 1477, Various collections
      13. Master of Mary of Burgundy (active ca. 1470 – 1490), The Hours of Mary of Burgundy, ca. 1477, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
      14. Geertgen tot Sint Jans (1455/1465 – 1485/1495), John the Baptist in the Wilderness, ca. 1480 — 1490, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
      15. Master of the Virgo inter Virgines (fl. 1483 – 1498), Lamentation over the Dead Christ, ca. 1486, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
      16. Hans Memling (1430/1440 – 1494), Dyptich of Maarten van Nieuwenhove, 1487, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges
      17. Jheronimus Bosch (ca. 1450 – 1516), Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490 — 1500, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
      18. Jan Borman (? – ca. 1520), Altarpiece of St George, 1493, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
      19. Jheronimus Bosch (ca. 1450 – 1516), The Owl’s Nest, 1505 — 1515, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
      20. Quinten Massys (1465/1466 – 1530), Triptych with the Family of St Anne, 1509, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
      21. Lucas van Leyden (1494 – 1533), The Milkmaid, 1510
      22. Anonymous Artist (? – ?), Cabinet of a Militia Company of the City of Alkmaar, ca. 1520 — 1530, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      23. Joachim Patinir (1475/1480 – 1524), Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx, 1520 — 1524, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
      24. Willem and Jan Dermoyen (active ca. 1530 – 1550), after Bernard van Orley (before 1490 – 1542), Battle of Pavia (Tapestry Series), ca. 1525 — 1531
      25. Jan Gossart (1478 – 1532), Danae, 1527, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
      26. Maarten van Heemskerck (1498 – 1574), Family Portrait, ca. 1530, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel
      27. Anonymous Artist (? – ?), Michaelspokal, 1532, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
      28. Jacques Dubroeucq (ca. 1505 – 1584), Choir Screen, 1535 — 1538, Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church, Mons
      29. Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (1504 – 1559), Tapestry Cartoons for Charles V of the Conquest of Tunis, 1535, 1546 — 1550, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
      30. Pieter Aertsen (ca. 1508 – 1575), Butcher’s Stall, 1551, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
      31. Cornelis Floris de Vriendt (II) (1514 – 1575), Sacramental Tower, 1552, St Leonard’s Church, Zoutleeuw
      32. Dirck Pietersz. Crabeth (1510/1520 – 1574), Wouter Pietersz. Crabeth (ca. 1520 – 1589), Joachim Wtewael (1566 – 1638), and others ( – ), Stained Glass Windows and Cartoons for the St John’s Church in Gouda, 1555 — 1601, St John’s Church, Gouda
      33. Joannes van Doetecum (ca. 1530 – 1605), Lucas van Doetecum (? – before 1589), after the Master of the Small Landscapes (active ca. 1550 – 1560), Farm, from the Small Landscapes, 1559 — 1561
      34. Hendrick Goltzius (1558 – 1617), after Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1562 – 1638), Tantalus, from The Four Disgracers, 1588
      35. Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/1530 – 1569), Hunters in the Snow, 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
      36. Willem Danielsz. van Tetrode (1505/1510 – in or before 1588), Hercules Pomarius, ca. 1567 — 1580, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      37. Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/1530 – 1569), The Beekeepers and the Birdnester, ca. 1568, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
      38. Wenzel Coebergher (design) (1560 – 1634), Theodoor van Loon (painting) (1581/1582 – 1649), Robert de Nole (sculpture) (ca. 1570 – 1636), Basilica of Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel, 1609 — 1627, Scherpenheuvel
      39. Adriaen de Vries (ca. 1556 – 1626), Mercury Abducting Psyche, 1593, Musée du Louvre, Paris
      40. Hendrick Goltzius (1558 – 1617), Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus, ca. 1600 — 1603, Philadephia Museum of Art, Philadephia
      41. Jacques de Gheyn (II) (1565 – 1629), Karel van Mander on His Deathbed, 1606, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
      42. Hendrick Avercamp (1585 – 1634), Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters, ca. 1608, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      43. Claes Jansz. Visscher (ca. 1587 – 1652), Plaisante Plaetsen, Print Series of 12 Landscapes, 1610 — 1620
      44. Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640), The Elevation of the Cross, 1610 — 1611, Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp
      45. Adam van Vianen (I) (1568/1569 – 1627), Lidded Ewer, 1614, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      46. Hendrick de Keyser (1665 – 1621), Tomb of William of Orange, 1614 — 1623, New Church, Delft
      47. Frans Snijders (1579 – 1657), Four Market Scenes, ca. 1615, Stage Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
      48. Clara Peeters (1580/1590 – ca. 1621), Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels, ca. 1615, Mauritshuis, The Hague
      49. Paschier Lamertijn (1562 – 1621), Table Cloth, With a Banquet, 1615, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      50. Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568 – 1625), The Five Senses (Series), 1617 — 1618, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
      51. Gerard van Honthorst (1592 – 1656), The Mocking of Christ, ca. 1617, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
      52. Anonymous Artist (? – ?), Salt-cellar, 1618, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      53. Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640), Nicolas Rubens with Coral Necklace, ca. 1619, Albertina, Vienna
      54. Frans Hals (1582/1583 – 1666), Laughing Cavalier, 1624, The Wallace Collection, London
      55. Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588 – 1629), Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene, 1625, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
      56. Hercules Segers (1589/1590 – ca. 1640), The Mossy Tree, ca. 1625 — 1630
      57. François Du Quesnoy (1597 – 1643), Santa Susanna, 1629, Santa Maria di Loreto, Rome
      58. Anthony van Dyck (1599 – 1641), Portrait of Erasmus, from the Iconographie, ca. 1630 — 1646
      59. Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640), The Three Graces, 1630 — 1635, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
      60. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 – 1669), Portrait of Saskia, 1633, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
      61. Anthony van Dyck (1599 – 1641), Charles I at the Hunt, ca. 1635, Musée du Louvre, Paris
      62. Herman Doomer (ca. 1595 – 1650), Dirck van Ryswyck (ca. 1596 – 1679), Cupboard, ca. 1635 — 1645, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      63. Pieter Claesz. (1597/1598 – 1660), Breakfast Piece, 1636, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
      64. Adriaen Brouwer (1605/1606 – 1638), The Smokers, ca. 1636, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
      65. Albert Eckhout (ca. 1610 – 1665), Dance of the Tarairiu, ca. 1640 — 1644, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
      66. Jacob Jordaens (1593 – 1678), The King Drinks, ca. 1640, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
      67. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 – 1669), The Three Trees, 1643
      68. Jan van Goyen (1596 – 1656), View of Haarlem and Haarlemmermeer, 1646, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
      69. Paulus Potter (1625 – 1654), The Bull, 1647, Mauritshuis, The Hague
      70. Bartholomeus van der van der Helst (1613 – 1670), Banquet at the Crossbowmen’s Guild in Celebration of the Treaty of Münster, 1648, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      71. Jacob van Campen (1596 – 1657), Jacob Jordaens (1593 – 1678), Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640), Gerard van Honthorst (1592 – 1656), Caesar van Everdingen (1616/1617 – 1678), and others ( – ), Oranjezaal, 1648 — 1652, Huis ten Bosch Palace, The Hague
      72. Artus Quellinus (I) (1609 – 1668), Relief Tribunal, 1648 — 1665, Royal Palace, Amsterdam
      73. Pieter Saenredam (1597 – 1665), Interior of the Sint-Odulphuskerk in Assendelft, 1649, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      74. Gerard ter Borch (II) (1611 – 1681), Gallant Conversation, Known as ‘The Paternal Admonition’, ca. 1654, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      75. Carel Fabritius (1622 – 1654), The Goldfinch, 1654, Mauritshuis, The Hague
      76. Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/1629 – 1682), The Jewish Cemetery, 1654 — 1655, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
      77. Michael Sweerts (1618 – 1664), Boy with a Hat, 1655 — 1656, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
      78. Aelbert Cuyp (1620 – 1691), View of Dordrecht from the North, ca. 1655, Ascott House, Buckinghamshire
      79. Pieter de Hooch (1629 – after 1684), The Courtyard of a House in Delft, 1658, The National Gallery, London
      80. Frans van Mieris (I) (1635 – 1681), The Duet, 1658, Staatliches Museum, Schwerin
      81. Caesar van Everdingen (1616/1617 – 1678), Bacchus and Ariadne, ca. 1660, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
      82. Johannes Vermeer (1632 – 1675), The Milkmaid, ca. 1660, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      83. Willem Kalf (1619 – 1693), Still Life with a Chinese Bowl, Nautilus Cup and Other Objects, 1662, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
      84. Gabriel Metsu (1629 – 1667), Woman Reading a Letter and Man Writing a Letter, ca. 1664 — 1666, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
      85. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 – 1669), Self Portrait, ca. 1665, Kenwood House, London
      86. Jan Steen (1625/1626 – 1679), The Feast of Saint Nicholas, 1665 — 1668, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      87. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 – 1669), Isaac and Rebecca, Known as ‘The Jewish Bride’, ca. 1665 — 1669, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
      88. Rombout Verhulst (1624 – 1698), Monumental Tomb of Michiel de Ruyter, 1677 — 1680, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
      89. Willem van de Velde (II) (1633 – 1707), The ‘Gouden Leeuw’ at the Battle of the Texel, 1687, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
      90. Meindert Hobbema (1638 – 1709), The Avenue at Middelharnis, 1689, The National Gallery, London
      91. The “Greek A” Factory (1685 – 1701), led by Adrianus Kocx (? – 1701), Tulip Vase, ca. 1694, Royal Collection Trust, Hampton Court Palace, London
      92. Adriaen van der Werff (1659 – 1722), Shepherd and Shepherdess, ca. 1696, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel
      93. Anonymous Artist (? – ?), Dollhouse, 1699 — 1743, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
      94. Adriaen Coorte (1659/1664 – 1707), Still Life with Wild Strawberries, 1705, Mauritshuis, The Hague
      95. Jacob de Wit (1695 – 1754), Ceiling ‘Grote Salon’ Cromhouthuis, 1718, Cromhouthuis, Amsterdam
      96. Michiel van der Voort (I) (1667 – 1737), Pulpit, ca. 1724, St Rumbold’s Cathedral, Mechelen
      97. Rachel Ruysch (1664 – 1750), Flower Still Life, 1726, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
      98. Dirck Dalens (III) (1688 – 1753), Anthony Elliger (1701 – 1781), The ‘Sael’ in Huis van Brienen, 1728 — 1733, Vereniging Hendrick de Keyser, Herengracht 284, Amsterdam
      99. Jan Baptist Xavery (1697 – 1742), Allegory of Faith, 1735 — 1739, St Bavo’s Cathedral, Haarlem
      100. Theodor Verhaegen (1701 – 1759), Confessional, 1736, Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Ninove

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100 Masterpieces

Dutch and Flemish art (1350 – 1750)