MONSTRANCE
The Crucifixion — Jan van Eyck
left  ·  The Crucifixion
The Last Judgment — Jan van Eyck
right  ·  The Last Judgment
2 sheets, one edition

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment — the diptych

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

The Met keeps one record for both panels, and calls the object a diptych: accession 33.92ab, each panel 56.5 by 19.7 cm, the two identical in size. They were made to be read across the join. The Crucifixion is given as an eyewitness would have it, the event set against a distant landscape; the Last Judgment answers it hieratically, built in three tiers with the figures scaled to their importance rather than their distance. One panel is what was paid; the other is what it purchased. Sold apart they are two pictures. Hung together they are the sentence van Eyck actually wrote.

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.

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.