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| Jan van Bijlert Portrait of a Lady before 1671 oil on panel Musée de La Cour d'Or de Metz |
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| Jan van Bijlert Mars Vigilant ca. 1630 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
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| Jan van Bijlert Market Woman ca. 1630-40 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Jan van Bijlert Bagpiper before 1671 oil on panel private collection |
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| Jan van Bijlert Allegory of the Senses - The Sense of Smell before 1671 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Jan van Bijlert Heraclitus and Democritus ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Jan van Bijlert St Matthew and the Angel ca. 1625-30 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Jan van Bijlert Vanitas 1640 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Jan van Bijlert Shepherd and Sleeping Nymph ca. 1623-30 oil on canvas Towneley Hall, Burnley, Lancashire |
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| Jan van Bijlert St Sebastian attended by St Irene before 1671 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Jan van Bijlert Return from the Chase ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Jan van Bijlert Fortune Teller with Young Couple ca. 1630 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Jan van Bijlert Venus chastising Cupid 1628 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Jan van Bijlert Inhabitants at St Jobsgasthuis in Utrecht ca. 1630-35 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Jan van Bijlert Banquet of Alexander the Great and Cleitus the Black 1635 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
Jan van Bijlert (1597/98-1671) – is best known as one of the Utrecht Caravaggists and is often ranked with Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen. However, van Bijlert is not primarily a Caravaggist painter, he is also a Classicist and a painter of 'realistic' Dutch genre scenes and portraits. He was readily inspired by new movements and developments which is reflected in a remarkable versatility in style and content as well as in quality. His inspiration comes from Dutch contemporaries such as Abraham Bloemaert and Gerard van Honthorst, from Italy (Caravaggio, Guido Reni, Orazio Gentileschi) and France (Simon Vouet).
– promotional copy for the monograph Jan van Bijlert by Paul Huys Janssen (1998)