Mushroom Art Registry:
1750-1850
The dates following the artist’s name are often those of his period of greatest creativity, not necessarily the dates of his birth and death.
Audubon, John-James. French-American. Santo Domingo 1785-NY 1851
- — A —
- Title: American pipit (Brown titlark) Plate 322
- Mushroom description: Anthus rubescens, and, on the background, two species of mushrooms reminiscent of Conocybe (the brown one at the left), and of Mycena (the small white ones)
- Reference: Peterson, Roger Tory and Peterson, Virginia Marie. Audubon's Birds of America: The Audubon’s Society Baby Elephant Folio. New York: Abbeville Press. (Revised edition) 1991.
- Note: Reported by André de Meijer and Les Braund
- — B —
- American pipit (Prairie titlark) Plate 323
- Mushroom description: Anthus rubescens, and, on the background, a mushroom species reminiscent of Conocybe
- Reference: Peterson, Roger Tory and Peterson, Virginia Marie. Audubon's Birds of America: The Audubon’s Society Baby Elephant Folio. New York: Abbeville Press. (Revised edition) 1991.
- Note: Reported by André de Meijer and Les Braund
Bolze, Carl. German. Wolfratshausen 1801-Id. 1878
- Title: Poisonous mushrooms (Giftpilze) (plus two other still life paintings)
- Location: Private collection?
- Mushroom description: Amanita muscaria, A. phalloides, Armillaria mellea and other capped mushrooms
- Reference : Defrige & Zeller. Ein unbekannter Maler der Münschener Schule
Bonvin François. French. 1817-1887
- Title: Still life with hare (Nature morte au lièvre)
- Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris
- Mushroom description: Group of approximately (probably) Agaricus
- Web: Joconde website (click “champignon”)
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Sidéon. French, 1699-1779
- — A —
- Title: The copper kettle. (La marmite de cuivre) Still life with jug, kettle and ladle. 1750-60
- Location: The Louvre, Paris
- Mushroom description: Agaricus bisporus next to kitchen utensils. Possibly the earliest painting of this species
- Reference : Schug. Die 100 schönste Gemälde der Welt. Köln. 1990.
- — B —
- Note: Attributed to Chardin
- Title: Kitchen table and utensils with side of lamb (Table de cuisine et ustensiles avec un carre de mouton)
- Location: Musée National Picasso, Paris
- Reference: Joconde website
Cole, Thomas. American (born in England). Feb. 1, 1801, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England-d. Feb. 11, 1848, Catskills, New York
- — A —
- Title: View from Mount Holyoke, North Hampton, Massachusetts, After a Storm, 1836
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 130.8x183
- Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- Mushroom description. Polypores on dead trees
- Web: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- — B —
- Title: View from Mount Video, the Seat of Daniel Wadsworth, Esq. 1928
- Medium: Oil on panel, 50.2x66.2
- Location: Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut
- Mushroom description: Polypores on dead trees
- — C —
- Title: Landscape with Tree Trunks. 1928
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 67.3x82.5
- Location: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
- Mushroom description: Polypores on dead trees
- Web: St. Bonaventure University
- — D —
- Title: Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. 1827-8
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 100.9x138.4
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Mushroom description: Polypores on dead trees
- Web: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- — E —
- Title: A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 102 x 155.8 cm
- Location: National Gallery, Washington, DC
- Mushroom description: Polypores on tree trunk in right foreground
- Web: National Gallery of Art
Durand, Asher . American. 1796-1886
- Title: Kindred Spirits. 1849
- Location: New York Public Library
- Mushroom description: Indistinct mushrooms in left foreground
- Web: Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Eybl, Franz. Austrian. Vienna 1806-d. 1880
- Title: Still life with boletes (Stilleben mit Steinpilzen)
- Mushroom description: Group of Boletus edulis and one Amanita caesarea?
- Web: http://www.gabrius.com/artindexplus/adv_search.ASP
French Anonymous. 19th century
- Title: Still life with boletes (Nature morte aux Cèpes)
- Mushroom description: A collection of about one dozen Boletus edulis
- Reference: Thibauld, P. Eloge du Cépe. Editions Copédit Périgueux. 1990. (Back cover)
Gainsborough, Thomas. British. Sudbury 1727-London 1788
- — A —
- Title: The Haymaker and the Sleeping Girl (The Mushroom Girl)
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 226 x 149 cm.
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Mushroom description: Basket of Agaricus sp. near sleeping girl
- Reference: Discussed in Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.
- — B —
- Title: View in Suffolk. 1775
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 48x45 in.
- Location: St. Louis Missouri Art Museum
- Mushroom description: Seated woman with probably field mushrooms P. Thibauld, Eloge du Cépe (Agaricus campestris) in basket, lower center
- Note: Seen by members of the Missouri Mycological Society on a “museum foray,” February 25, 2004
Gavarni, Paul. French. 1804-1866
- Title: Young girls:Jesus, how do you dare eat the mushrooms! Mushrooms, my dear, are like with men. Nothing resembles the good ones as much as the bad ones! (Les Lorettes: Jésus! comment que tu oses manges les champignons!! Les champignons, ma belle, c’est comme les hommes, rien ressemble aux bons comme les mauvais)
- Location: Museum Carnavalet, Paris
- Web: Réunion des musées nationaux
Gillray, James.British. London 1757-London 1811
- Title: An excrescence – a fungus: - alias – a toad-stool upon a dung-hill. 1791
- Medium: Etching with publisher's watercolor, 25.5 x 22.5 cm.
- Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
- Mushroom description: A caricature of a mushroom with a human face
- Reference: Published by Hannah Humphrey, December 20, 1791
- Web: National Portrait Gallery
Glinzer, Carl. German. 1802-1878
- Title: Nature study(?) 1826
- Location: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Neue Gallerie, Kassel, Germany
- Mushroom description: Red mushrooms
- Reference: Catalog, Grimm Museum, Kassel, Germany
Grandville, pseudonym of Jean-Ignace Gérard. French. 1803-1847
- Title: The dream. 1847
- Medium: Woodcut
- Mushroom Description: Transformation of stars into dragons into umbrellas into mushrooms
- Reference: From Magasin Pittoresque inWasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.
Grimm, Ludwig Emil. German. Hanau 1790-Kassel 1863
- Title: Tree stump (Baumstumpf). 1828
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Brown mushrooms on stump (Kuhneromyces?)
- Reference : Catalog, Grimm Museum, Kassel
Harpignies, Henri-Joseph. French. 1819-1916
- Title: The Village Church. 1891
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 18x24 in.
- Location: St. Louis (Mo.) Art Museum
- Mushroom description: Two-three parasol mushrooms, probably Macrolepiota procera, under tree on lower left
- Note: Seen by members of the Missouri Mycological Society on a “museum foray,” February 25, 2004.
Hayman, Francis. British. 1708-1776
- Title: Portrait of a Gentleman. Ca. 1750
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 28x24 in.
- Location: St. Louis (Mo.) Art Museum
- Mushroom description: Scaly fungus, perhaps Trametes versicolor in right hand corner
- Note: Seen by members of the Missouri Mycological Society on a “museum foray,” February 25, 2004
Hilleström, Pehr. Swedish. Väddö 1732-Stockholm 1816
- Title: Still life with mushrooms and fruits
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 69 x 57 cm.
- Location: Ostergotlands Lansmuseum, Linköping, Sweden
- Mushroom description: About six mushrooms scattered, perhaps Boletus edulis
Hugo, Victor. French. 1802-1885
- Title: Champignon (First shown, 1850)
- Medium: Ink, crayon, gouache, other. 47.4 x 60.8 cm.
- Location: Maison Victor Hugo, Paris. (Inventory # 812)
- Mushroom description: A gigantic blue-staining bolete in a landscape
- Web: http://www.matisse.lettres.free.fr/rubriqueleves/marionhugo/ champignons.htm
Hunt, William Henry. British. 1790-1864
- Title: Still life with double Gloucester cheese on a blue and white plate, mushrooms in a pannet, carrots, celery, and half-glazed stoneware jug, ca. 1835
- Medium: Watercolor on paper, 17 x 31.5 cm.
- Location: Courtauld Inst., London
- Mushroom description: About half dozen mushrooms, perhaps Agaricus campestris
- URL : Art and Architecture
Innes, George. American. 1825-1894
- Title: In the Roman Campagna. 1873
- Medium: Oil on canvas. 48x24 in.
- Location: St. Louis (MO) Art Museum
- Mushroom description: White mushroom, perhaps Shaggy Mane
- (Macrolepiota procera) in lower left, by 2 sheep
- Note: Seen by members of the Missouri Mycological Society on a “museum foray,” February 25, 2004.
Khrutsky (Chuzky , Chyzky), Ivan (Jan). Polish. Ulka, Vitebsk 1810-?1885
- — A —
- Title: Portrait of a young man with red shirt and basket of mushrooms (Portraet Junge mit rotem Hemd und Korb mit Pilzen)
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Boletes
- Note: Provided by Tjakko Stijve
- — B —
- Title: Still life with fruits (Stilleben mit Früchte) 1839
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Boletes, gilled mushrooms, some with white , other with brown gills
- Note: Provided by Tjakko Stijve
- — C —
- Title: Basket of mushrooms (Korb mit pilzen)
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Various boletes, in background a chanterelle and a gilled mushroom
- Reference: Scala Archives website
- Note: Provided by Tjakko Stijve
- — D —
- Title: Still life. 1839
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Location: The Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
- Mushroom description: Basket of boletes, including Boletus edulis, Leccinum scabrum, and Xerocomus badius
- Web: Olga's Gallery
- — E —
- Title: Still life with various vegetables, crayfish
- Location: Odessa Museum, Russia
- Mushroom description: Approximately six boletes, (possibly) B. pinicola
- Web: Scala Archives
- — F —
- Title: Vegetables, Fruit and Dead Game. 1830s
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Location: The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Mushroom description: Group of brown mushrooms with velvety caps on right foreground, perhaps boletes
- Web: Olga's Gallery
Knapp, Johann. Austrian. 1778-1839
- Title: Homage to Joachim (Huldigung an Joacquin). 1821-22
- Medium: Oil
- Location: Oberes Belvedere, Vienna
- Mushroom description: Clathrus ruber, Agaricus bisporus, Cyathus striatus, Stereum sp. and (possibly) Peziza badia
Koch, Joseph (Josef) Anton. Austrian. 1768-1839
- Title: Heroic landscape with rainbow (Heroische Landschaft mit Regenbogen) Second version, 1804-1815
- Location: Neue Pinakothek, Munich. (Inventory # WAF 447)
- Mushroom description: Several brown capped mushrooms in middle and right background in darkness.
- Reference : Die Neue Pinakothek, Munich. 1989. Alte und Neue Pinakothek, Munich.1994.
La Thangue, Henry H. British. 1859-1929
- Title: Dawn: Gathering mushrooms
- Medium: 56x69cm.
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: A girl stooped over a row of mushrooms, probably Agaricus campestris
- Reference: Gabrius website
Lesourd de Beauregard, Ange-Louis-Guillaume. French. 1800-1885
- Vegetables, cabbage and radishes, duck and lobster, eggs, and mushrooms
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 61 x 53.3 cm.
- Location: Sold by Sotheby’s, NY
- Mushroom description: Basket of Agaricus campestris
- Reference : Greindl, E. Les Peintures Flamands de La Nature Morte aux XVIIe siécle. Sterrebeek. 1983. Greindl, E. Les Peintures Flamands de La Nature Morte aux XVIIe siécle. Sterrebeek. 1983.
Lewis, Henry. American (b. in England). 1819-1904
- Title: Saint Louis in 1846. 1848
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 36x28 in.
- Location: St. Louis (Mo.) Art Museum
- Mushroom description: Bracket fungus near or on slanted tree on lower left
- Note: Seen by members of the Missouri Mycological Society on a “museum foray,” February 25, 2004.
Oehme, Ernst Ferdinand. German. 1797 – 1855
- Hohnstein castle in the Saxonian Swiss mountains. (Burg Hohnstein in der Sächsischen Schweiz.) 1827
- Medium: Oil
- Location: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. (InventoryA III 314)
- Mushroom description: Shows three Amanita muscaria on forest soil; may be one of the earliest paintings with the fly agaric
- Reference: Museum catalogue Alte Nationalgalerie, p. 313 (coloured, very small)
- Note: Seen in 2002 by H. and K. Kreisel
Reynolds, Sir Joshua. British, Plympton 1723-London 1792
- Title: Puck. 1789
- Medium: Oil
- Mushroom description: Forest scene with several cap mushrooms on the ground
- Reference : The Book of Fairies.
Richter, Johann Carl August. German. Dresden 1785-1853
- Title: Still life with lemons, mushrooms, beets, fish
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Four mushrooms scattered in foreground, probably boletes
- Reference: Gabrius website
Roland Delaporte, Henri Horace. French. Paris 1724 or 1725–Id. 1793
- — A —
- Title: Still life with basket of eggs, apples, one mushroom (Le panier d’oefs) 1788
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 38 x 48 cm.
- Location: Louvre, Paris
- Mushroom description: One lonely button, probably Agaricus campestris
- Web: Musées de France
- — B —
- Title: Still life with squash and mushrooms (Nature Morte Au Potiron Et Aux Champignons)
- Location: Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Rouen , France
- Web: Joconde website
Rowlandson, T. British. 1756 -1827
- Title: The Last Gasp or Toadstools Mistaken for Mushrooms. 1813
- Location: National Art Gallery Rosenwald Collection. (1945.5.1232.)
- Mushroom description: Patient being examined by physician, ostensibly because of mushroom poisoning. No mushrooms seen
- Web: Justin F Skrebowski: Prints & Pictures 1600-1900
Rusling-Meeker, Joseph. American. 1827-1887
- Title: The Land of Evangeline. 1874
- Medium: Oil on canvas. 48x36 in.
- Location: St. Louis (MO) Art Museum
- Mushroom description: Scaly fungus on tree in lower center
- Note: Seen by members of the Missouri Mycological Society on a “museum foray” on February 25, 2004
Schwind, Moritz von. Austrian/German, Vienna 1804-Munich 1871
- — A —
- Title: Death and Poverty overcome the Idle (Mangel und Armut überfallen den Müssigen)
- Medium: Pen drawing. 1830
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Group of cap mushrooms in left foreground
- Reference : Orsini, V. Aus Mortiz von Schwind’s Fullhorn. Barmen. 1925.
- — B —
- Title: Brother and Sister (Bruder und Schwester)
- Medium: Drawing for Sieben Raben. ca. 1830
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Group of cap mushrooms in left foreground
- Reference : Kalkscmidt. Moritz von Schwind. Munich. 1943.
- — C —
- Title: The Ride of Kuno von Falkenstein (Der Ritt Kunos von Falkenstein) 1843-44
- Medium: Oil
- Location: Museum der bildenen Künste, Leipzig
- Mushroom description: Red polypores on a tree trunk
- Reference : Orsini, V. Aus Mortiz von Schwind’s Fullhorn. Barmen. 1925. Winkler. Museum der bildenen Künste Leipzig. Leipzig, 1981. Museum postcard.
- — D —
- Title: The Symphony (Die Symphonie)
- Medium: Etching and print, 1846. Plus pencil drawing, 1849
- Location: Museum der bildenen Künste, Leipzig
- Mushroom description: Both works show polypores on a tree trunk (but an oil painting by the same title in Munich’s Neue Pinakothek shows no mushrooms)
- Note: Seen by HK in a special exhibition in Leipzig, 1997
- — E —
- Title: Rübezahl (a figure in German mythology). 1851
- Medium: Oil
- Location: Oberes Belvedere, Vienna
- Mushroom description: Five caps of Amanita muscaria in edge of a path
- Reference : Museum diapositive
- — F —
- Title: Rübezahl (a figure in German mythology). 1851-59
- Medium: Oil
- Location: Schack Gallery, Munich
- Mushroom description: Five caps of Amanita muscaria (less clear than in above)
- Reference : Deutsche Malerei der Spätromantik (Guide to Schack Gallery). 1988.
- Note: According to V. Ostini, 1925, this is a smaller copy of the Vienna painting.
Turner, Joseph M. W. British. 1775-1851
- Title: Gledhow
- Note: Engraved by G. Cooke, (after a Turner painting). Published 1816.
- Location: Tate, London
- Mushroom description: A couple collecting mushrooms
Vallayer-Coster, Anne. French. 1744-1818
- Title: Vase, lobster, fruits and game (Vase, homard, fruits et gibier)
- Location: Louvre, Paris
- Mushroom description: Single Boletus edulis on side in left foreground
- Note: A similar work (Still Life with Lobster, 1781) with the mushroom on the right was exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, June 2002.