Mushroom Art Registry:
Dutch Baroque (ca. 1600-1750)
Begeyn, Abraham. Dutch. Leyden, ca.1635-Berlin 1710
- Title: Still Life
- Location: Galleria d'Arte Anticha, Rome
- Mushroom description: Group of agarics
- Reference: Wasson, G. and V. 1957. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books.
Berchem, Nicolaes. Dutch, Haarlem 1620-Amsterdam 1683
- Title: Forest understory still life with thistle (Waldbodenstilleben mit Distel)
- Medium: Oil on wood, 91 x 76 cm.
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Several gilled Hymenomycetes
- Reference: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. 1999.
Boelema de Stomme, Maerten. Dutch. Ca. 1642- c.1673
- Title: The Truffle Pie
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 60x79.5 cm.
- Location: Musée des Beaux Artes, Nantes, France.
- Mushroom description: Pie with dark contents, ostensibly including truffles
- Web: The Bridgeman Art Library
Borssom, Anthonie van. Dutch. Amsterdam 1629/30 - 1677
- Title: Forest understory still life with thistle and animals (Waldbodenstilleben mit Distel und Tieren)
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 62 x 49
- Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Mushroom description: Four robust mushrooms cf. Leucoagaricus excoriatus on right foreground, with cracked caps.
- Reference: Steensma, S. 1999. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.
Broeck, Elias Van den. Dutch, Amsterdam 1657 - 1708 Amsterdam
- — A —
- Title: Forest floor still life with a bird's nest, toadstools, snails, blackberries, tortoiseshell, aurora and common blue butterfly
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Two red campanulate mushrooms in left foreground
- Viewed at: Gabrius website
- — B —
- Title: A forest floor still life of wild roses, vines and toadstools with a red admiral, a snail, caterpillar and damselflies
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Two agarics (in black and white, thus of indeterminate color)
- Viewed at: Gabrius website
- — C —
- Title: Forest floor still life with a snake threatening a lizard by a clump of toadstools, a snail and a butterfly nearby
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Clump of reddish-brown mushrooms, one with cracked cap cuticle
- Viewed at: Gabrius website
- — D —
- Title: Still Life on Forest Floor with Flowers, Mushrooms, and Snails
- Location: Private collection
- Mushroom description: Group of 4-5 campanulate red capped mushrooms on forest floor
- Web: The Bridgeman Art Library
Grasdorp, Willem. Dutch, Zwolle 1678 - Amsterdam 1723
- Title: Still life with grapes, chestnuts, peaches and a plum on the ledge of a stone niche, with snail and fungi
- Mushroom description: Two small capped mushrooms in right foreground
- Location: Unknown
- Viewed at: Gabrius website
Heem, Cornelis Janz. De. Dutch, Layden 1631 - Antwerp 1695
- — A —
- Title: Not available
- Location: Private collection
- Note: According to Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957, this is a painting of a " ... sepulchral setting where a lovely flower arrangement is juxtaposed to a bisected gourd and some growing mushrooms."
- — B —
- Title: Peaches, grapes, walnuts, mushrooms, snails and a thistle, on a river bank
- Mushroom description: Group of indistinctive reddish capped mushrooms on left
- Viewed at: Gabrius website
- — C —
- Title: Still lie with fruits and mushrooms
- Mushroom description: Group of unidentified mushrooms
- Viewed at: Gabrius website
Heem, Jan Davidz. De. Dutch, Utrecht 1606 - Antwerp 1684
- — A —
- Title: Blossoms in landscape on stone pedestal (Blüten in Landschaft auf Steinsockel)
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 35 cm.
- Location: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
- Mushroom description: Two-three mushrooms with cap on right foreground
- Reference: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. 1999. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.
- — B —
- Title: A still life
- Location: Turin, Italy
- Mushroom description: Hydnellum aurantiacum, Kuehneromyces mutabilis and other mushrooms.
- Reference: S. Killermann, 1927.
- — C —
- Title: Peaches, grapes, walnuts, mushrooms, snails and a thistle, on a river bank
- Mushroom description: Mushrooms difficult to distinguish.
- Viewed at: Gabrius website
Heem, Jan Jansz. (Attributed to) Dutch. 1650 - c.1695
- Title: Still life with lobster
- Medium: 118 x 170 cm.
- Location: Wallace Collection, London
- Mushroom description: About six Boletus edulis.
- Reference: Wasson, G. and V. 1957. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. (reverse image)
Henstenburgh, Herman. Dutch. Hoorn 1667-Hoorn 1726
- Title: Thistles, daisies and mushrooms by a pond.
- Mushroom description: Campanulate mushrooms in the foreground
- Viewed at: Gabrius website
Hondecoeter, Melchior de. Dutch, Utrecht 1636 - Amsterdam 1695
- — A —
- Title: Birds and Butterflies among Plants (1668)
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 68.3 x 56.8 cm.
- Location: National Gallery, London. Inventory # NG 122
- Mushroom description: About 5 Psathyrella candolleana in foreground of outdoors scene
- Reference: Wasson, G. and V. 1957. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books.
- National Gallery
- — B —
- Title: Animals and Plants (Dieren en planten)
- Location: Centraalmuseum, Utrecht
- Reference: Elio Schaechter has an old postcard with this painting and museum location, but the museum says they don't own it
- — C —
- Title: Still life. Similar to above in National Gallery, London
- Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
- Reference: Wasson, G. and V. 1957. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books.
- — D —
- Title: Poultry in Parkland
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Indistinct red capped mushrooms in foreground
- Web: http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/search/s_results.asp?search=60072 &order=5&stype=all&page=&view=2
- — E —
- Title: Farmyard Still Life with Chickens and other Birds, a Frog and Mushrooms
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Four red capped boletes with red pores
- Reference: Gabrius website
Houbraken, van Niccolino. Dutch. Active 1706-1724
- — A—
- Title: Still life of mushrooms and poppies at the foot of a bush
- Mushroom description: Group of probable Amanita caesarea
- Reference: Gabrius website
- — B—
- Title: Forest understory
- Mushroom description: Two reddish capped mushrooms
- Reference: Gabrius website
Kerckhoven, van de Jacob (called Jacopo da Castello). Dutch. 1637 - 1712
- — A—
- Title: Ducks, guinea fowl, pigeons, guinea pigs, mushrooms, sweet corn and other vegetables in a landscape setting
- Mushroom description: Group of Amanita caesarea strewn in foreground
- Reference: Gabrius website
- — B—
- Title: A dead cockerel and snipe and other birds on a ledge with doves, a duck, funghi and vegetables
- Mushroom description: Several indistinct boletes?
- Reference: Gabrius website
- — C—
- Title: A goose, a brace of mallard, a turkey, a guinea fowl, funghi, spring onions, oysters and cabbages, dead woodcock, thrushes and a boar's head on a...
- Mushroom description: Several indistinct mushrooms
- Reference: Gabrius website
Lachtropius, Nicolaes. Dutch, active 1656-1700
- Title: Forest understory still life with mushrooms and butterflies (Waldbodenstilleben mit Pilzen und Schmetterlinge).
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 31 x 25.5 cm.
- Location: Narodni Gallery, Prague
- Mushroom description: Two prominent Coprinus comatus, Coprinus cf. atramentarius and several smaller ones
- Reference: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. 1999. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.
Myn, van der Herman. Dutch., Amsterdam 1684 - London 1741
- — A —
- Title: Still life of a large vase of flowers, with grapes, plums and mushrooms around the base of the vase
- Mushroom description: A few probably Agaricus strewn casually
- Reference: Gabrius website
- — B —
- Title: Still life with mushrooms and butterflies
- Location: Rouen, France, Musée Des Beaux-Arts
- Web: Joconde
- Note: Seen in 2002 by H. and K. Kreisel
Oolen, Von, Adriaen (=Alen). Dutch, 1630-1694
- Title: Untitled
- Mushroom description: Lactarius deliciosus and Tricholoma aurantiacum in a poultry yard.
- Location: Bamberg Gallerie, inventory # 204
- Note: Mentioned by S. Killerman, 1927.
Ostade, Isaack van. Dutch, 1621-1649
- Title: Canal landscape (Kanallandschaft).
- Location: Ermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Mushroom description: Polypores high on tree trunk.
- Note: seen by K. Bickerich
Rembrandt, Hermensz. van Rijn. Dutch, Leyden 1606-Amsterdam 1699
- Title: Diana bathing with her Nymphs
- Medium: Oil, ca. 1850
- Location: Museum Wasserburg, Anholt, Germany (previously, Lichtenstein Gallery, Vienna)
- Mushroom description: Marasmius oreades
- Reference: Catalog, Brown et al., 1991
Ruysch, Rachel. Dutch, Amsterdam 1664-1750
- — A —
- Title: Forest understory with poppies, carnations, corn flowers, mushrooms and insects. 1683
- Reference: Kunst und Antiquitäten, 1993
- Note: Last located at auction, London
- — B —
- Title: Still life with snake
- Location: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK
- Mushroom description: Group of red, campanulate mushrooms with cracked caps
- Web: The Bridgeman Art Library
- — C —
- Title: Flowers on a tree trunk (Blumen aus einem Baumstamm)
- Medium: Oil on canvas 93 x 74 cm.
- Location: State Collection, Kassel, Germany
- Mushroom description: Coprinus cf. micaceus on left foreground
- Reference: Schneider, Stillleben, Cologne 1989
- Reference: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. 1999. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.
- Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.
- — D —
- Title: Peaches, grapes, melons, a corncob, plums, pears, a thistle, acorns, chestnuts, raspberries, toadstools.
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Indistinct agarics
- Reference: Gabrius website
- — E —
- Title: Flowers and Animals in Front of a Cliff. 1865/87
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Location: Galerie Alte Meister, Dresden
- Mushroom description: Two little agarics and a toad in the lower left corner
- Reference: André van der Goes (ed.). Tulpomanie, Frontispice. Zwolle and Dresden. 2004.
Schrieck, Otto Marseus van. Nijmegen 1619/20-Amsterdam 1678
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Note: A large number of still lifes containing mushrooms have been attributed to this Dutch painter. Please go to the complete listing. Here we include a few samples of his work.
- — A —
- Title: Still life with Insects and Amphibians. ("Stilleben mit Insekten und Amphibien"). 1662
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 50.7 x 68.5 cm.
- Location: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum. Braunschweig, Germany (Inv.# GG 431)
- Mushroom description: Two Amanita caesarea, one agaric with partial veil, and a clump of coral mushrooms
- Note: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957, shows a nearly identical still life , but with one of the mushrooms overturned and other small changes. Same location is listed
- Web Gallery of Art
- — B —
- Title: Still life with poppy, insects and reptiles, oil on canvas, 68.3 x 52.7 cm.
- Location: Metropolitan Museum, New York.
- Mushroom description: Four or five gilled mushrooms
- Reference: Illustr. Wasson, G. and V. 1957 Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- — C —
- Title: Moth with Mushrooms (or, Butterfly with mushrooms). Inv.-Nr. 1500, oil on canvas, 32.5 x 41.5 cm. Kunstmuseum. Basel, Switzerland.
- Mushroom description: About 20 mushrooms: According to Roger Heim (Larousse des Champignons, Paris, 1978), sterile base of Lycoperdon hiemale, Russula sp., Russula knauthi, Amanita pantherina, Psalliota arvensis s.sp. sylvicola or abruptibulba, Clathrus cancellatus, Amanita citrina s. sp. mappa or alba, Coprinus micaceus, Aleuria sp., Coprinus sp. (or young Mycena galericulata), Mycena galericulata, Cladonia sp. (lichen), Lactarius volemus, Trametes quercina, unidentified
Simons, Michiel. Dutch. 1620-1673
- — A —
- Title: Still life of grapes, pears and other fruit, a lemon, bread, a plate with a peach and mushroom and a glass of red wine on a ledge
- Mushroom description: Single cut (probably) Agaricus
- Reference: Gabrius website
- — B —
- Title: Still life of fruit, peaches and mushrooms scattered on the ground
- Mushroom description: Two indistinct reddish capped mushrooms
- Reference: Gabrius website
Uyttenbroeck, Moyses van. Dutch, Hague ca. 1590-1647
- Title: Juno, Argus and Io (Juno, Argus und Jo)
- Medium: Oil
- Location: Alte Pinakothek, Munich
- Mushroom description: Group of hard to distinguish olive-gray cap mushrooms in left background
- Reference: Catalog, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 1999
Withoos, Matthias (also Withous. Called Calzetta Bianca). Dutch, Amersfoort 1625/26-Hoorn 1703
- — A —
- Title: Forest understory still life with toads and lizard in a landscape (Erdbodenstilleben mit Kröte und Eidechse in einer Landschaft)
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 101 x 80.3 cm.
- Location: Private collection
- Mushroom description: Two brown gilled mushrooms (collybioid?) on the ground, one with upturned cap edges
- Reference: Sestieri, G. Nature Morte e Paesaggi Italiani ed Europei del XVII e XVIII secolo. 1993. Giandi Sapi Editori.
- Reference: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. 1999. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.
- — B —
- Title: Hollyhocks, roses, a blue-lace flower, a sunflower and toadstools, with marigolds in an urn by a tree
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Two, possibly, Amanita muscaria
- Reference: Gabrius website
- — C —
- Title: Poppies, honeysuckle, toadstools and butterflies in forest
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Indistinct agarics
- Reference: Gabrius website
- — D —
- Title: Still life
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 106 x 84 cm.
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Campanulate mushrooms in right foreground, reminiscent of Coprinus atramentarius
- Web: Galleria de' Fusari
Wouwerman, Philips. Dutch, Haarlem 1619-1668
- Title: By the Forge (vor der Schmiede)
- Location: Staatskunstsammlung, Kassel, Germany
- Mushroom description: Perhaps polypores on dead tree
- Note: Seen by K. Bickerich