Mushroom Art Registry:
Flemish Baroque (ca. 1600-1750)

Benedetti, Andries. Flemish. Active, 1641-1649

Title: Sumptuous still life
Medium: Oil on canvas, 168 x 140 cm.
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Mushroom description: Basket of Boletus edulis
Reference: Ember, I. Delights of the Senses. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts. 1989.

Bloemen, Norbert Van (called Cefalus). Flemish, 1670 – 1746

Title: Vegetable vendor in a southern landscape with a caprice of Rome in the background (Gemüseverkäuferin in einer Südlichen Landschaft, in Hintergrund ein Capriccio von Rom)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of large mushrooms, probably Amanita caesarea, for sale on bare ground on a street
Reference:. Werbematerial Auktionshaus. Bonn: A. Bödiger. 1999.
Reference: Gabrius website

Boeckel, Peter van. Flemish. Ca.1610-1673

Title: Dead Game and Vegetables on a Larder
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Three mushrooms, perhaps boletes
Web: The Bridgeman Art Library

Boucle, Van Peter. Dutch 1610? - 1673

Title: A Kitchen still life of game, meat, freshwater and sea crustacean, grapes.
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Several indistinct mushrooms on left foreground
Viewed at: Gabrius website

Breughel, Abraham. Flemish. Antwerp 1631 - Naples 1697

Title: Still life with flowers and fungi
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of Amanita caesarea
Reference: Gabrius website

Coosemans, Alexander. Flemish. 1627-1689

Title: Fruit Piece (Still-life of various fruits set on stone with a landscape in the distance)
Medium: Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 55.6 cm.
Location: Bowes Museum, Durham, UK
Mushroom description: Collection of five capped mushrooms in left foreground
Web: The Bowes Museum

Fyt, Jan. Flemish. Antwerp 1611-1661

Title: Still life with basket, melon, celery, various birds and mushrooms
Medium: Oil on wood. 49 x 63,5 cm.
Location: Musées Royaux des Beaux-Artes de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Mushroom description: Four Boletus pinophilus. The hymenial surface of the foreground left mushroom seems to be mouldy, perhaps an early stage of Sepedonium chrysogenum which is a frequent fruitbody parasite of boletes
Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.
Web: Web Gallery of Art

Gillemans, Jan Pauwel the Elder. Flemish. 1618-1675

Title: Painting of the Madonna 1655
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Boletus edulis
Reference: Killermann, S. 1927

Gryeff, de Adriaen. Flemish. 1670 - Bruxelles, 1715

Title: A dead cockerel and songbirds hanging on nails with other dead birds, mushrooms and a melon strewn on the ground, a mansion beyond
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: A red-pored bolete in right foreground
Reference: Gabrius website

Hamilton, Philipp Ferdinand De. Flemish. Brussels, ca. 1664; Vienna 1750

— A —
Title: A chicken by baskets of asparagus and mushrooms by dead birds in a landscape; two chickens by a basket of fruit and vegetables in a landscape
Location: Unknown
Reference: Gabrius website
— B —
Title: Bird's nest and lizard with mushrooms and thistle
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Indistinct mushroom
Reference: Gabrius website

Hoefnagel, Joris. Flemish, 1542–1600

Title: Rubra mihi cutis es...
Medium: Engraving, 15 x 20.5 cm.
Location: Aschenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. (1963.30.38736.29)
Mushroom description: Probably Lactarius with inrolled cap, upside down
Reference: plate 7 in pt. 3 of the book, Archetypa studiaque patrisä (Frankfurt: n. p., [15]92), parts 1-4 in 1 vol., 1592
Web: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Horemans, Jan Josef the Younger II. Flemish. 1714-1790

Title: Kitchen still life with apples and pears in baskets, plums and blackberries in porcelain bowls, melons, porcini mushrooms, peaches, cardoon, and other objects all arranged on a wooden table
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of red capped boletes (perhaps Boletus edulis) on left foreground
Reference: Gabrius website

Jordaens, Jacob. Flemish. Antwerp 1593 – Id. 1678

Title: Diogenes with Lantern looking for Man in the Marketplace (Diogenes mit der Laterne sucht auf dem Markt nach Menschen) Ca. 1650
Location: Galerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany. (Inventory # 1010)
Mushroom description: Boletes, probably Boletus aestivalis
Reference: Brück & Sons. Meissen. 1995

Kessel, Jan Van, the Elder. Flemish. Antwerp 1626-1697

Title: Market Scene with A Girl Selling Fruit and a Hunter
Medium: Oil on canvas, 120 x 170 cm.
Location: Statens Museum For Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mushroom description: Fruit and vegetable stall with basket of mushrooms (boletes?)
Reference: Greindl. E. Les Peintures Flamands de La Nature Morte aux XVIIe siécle. Sterrebeek. 1983.
Note: Copy with modifications of Frans Snyders, Fruit and Vegetable Stall, q.v.
Web: http://130.226.236.8/flamsk/images/082-bwp_p5.jpg

Kessel, Jan Van, the Younger. Flemish. Ca. 1654-1708

Title: Kitchen still life with poultry, birds, a hare, a boar’s head and mushrooms in a basket
Medium: Oil on canvas, 34.5 x 31.5 cm.
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Basket with Boletus edulis on the right
Reference: Sotherby’s Ludwigsburg, October 9, 2000; Gabrius website

Quellinus, Jan Erasmus. Flemish. Antwerp 1634-Malines, 1715. With Jan Fyt (q.v.)

Title: Jesus with Martha and Mary (Jesus Chez Marthe Et Marie)
Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France
Web: Joconde website

Snyders, Frans (Snijders). Flemish. Antwerp 1579-Id. 1657

— A —
Title: Fruit and Vegetable Stall
Location: Alte Pinakothek. Munich (Inventory #4278)
Mushroom description: Basket with Boletus edulis
Note: Copy is in Schloss Pommersfelden, Germany, and a variant is in the Louvre
Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957. Schneider. Stilleben. Cologne. 1989. Robels. Snyders. Munich. 1989.
Web: Web Gallery of Art
— B —
Title: Female Fruit and Vegetable Seller
Medium: Oil
Location: Bowes Museum, Bernard Castle, Durham, UK
Mushroom description: Agaricus sp. on a sieve
Reference: Robels. Snyders. Munich. 1989
— C —
Title: The Vegetable Market Ca. 1620
Medium: Oil
Location: Ermitage, St. Petersburg (Inventory #1313)
Mushroom description: Basket with Boletus edulis
Note: Copy by the Earl of Dudley, London
Reference: Robels. Snyders. Munich. 1989
— D —
Title: The Hunt at the Dam (Chasse au Dam)
Medium: Oil
Location: Musée Royaux des Beaux Artes, Bruxelles
Mushroom description: Gilled mushrooms (cf. Hypholoma fasciculare) on a tree stump
— E —
Fruit Stall
Title: Location: The Bowes Museum Barnard Castle, Durham County, UK
Mushroom description: Basket of (probably) Agaricus campestris in left foreground
Web: The Bowes Museum
— F —
Title: Still life with Fruit and Vegetables
Medium: Oil on canvas, 160 cm x 252 cm.
Location: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Mushroom description: Basket of agarics in middle foreground
— G —
Title: Still life with vegetables and fruit
Medium: Oil on canvas, 15 x 35 in.
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: One Boletus edulis on left.
Reference: Warner, R. Dutch and Flemish Flower and Fruit Painters of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Second ed. Amsterdam: BM Israel NV. 1975

Snyers Pieter. Flemish. 1681-1752

— A —
Title: Still life of fruit and mushrooms
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Two red boletes
Reference: Gabrius website
— B —
Title: Peaches, plums, medlar, figs on a vine, an apple, mushrooms and a beetle on a forest floor
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of red boletes
Reference: Gabrius website
— C —
Title: Still life: vegetables and fruits
Medium: Oil on canvas, 152 x 179 cm.
Location: Louvre Museum, Paris
Mushroom description: Pile of Boletus edulis on foreground
Web: Réunion des musées nationaux

Teniers, David the Younger. Flemish. Antwerp 1610–1690

Title: Witches' Scene
Medium: Oil on panel, 64.2x48.5 cm.
Location: Hamburger Kunstalle, Hamburg, Germany
Mushroom description: Two groups of possibly Boletus edulis
Web:The Bridgeman Art Library

Utrecht, Adrien Van. Flemish. Antwerp 1599-1652

— A —
Title: The arrival of the tide (L’Arrivé de la Marée)
Location: Musées Royaux des Beaux-Artes, Bruxelles, Belgium
Mushroom description: Fishermen with fish and trays of various foods, include a plate with approximately 12 mushrooms. Hard to tell if gilled mushrooms or boletes
— B —
Title: Still life with vegetables and fish (Stillleben mit Gemüse und Fischen)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Several mushrooms in foreground, one (probably) Boletus edulis
Reference: Gabrius website
— C —
Title: Still life with baskets, pumpkin, drapery, various vegetables and mushrooms
Location: Musées Royaux des Beaux-Artes, Bruxelles
Mushroom description: Group of boletes on left and bundled gilled mushrooms in right foreground
Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.
— D —
Title: Kitchen interior with a still life , maid by the fire
Location: Bridgeman’s Art Library, London
Mushroom description: Mushrooms in center and right foreground
Reference: Forty. Meisterwerke der Malerei. Augsburg. 1999
— E —

Jordaens

Title: Still life with Fishmonger - lobster; crab; hare; goose; cod; partridge; cockerel; carcass; pumpkin; sausages; eel; basket; mushroom
Medium: Oil, 200x320cm.
Location: Phillips, The International Fine Art Auctioneers, UK
Mushroom description: Basket of Agaricus?

Van Dyck, Anthonis Sir. Flemish. Antwerp 1599-London 1641

Title: Saint Jerome (Der Heilige Hieronymus) Ca. 1618
Location: Galerie Alte Meister, Dresden (Inventory #1024)
Mushroom description: Boletes, probably Boletus erythropus
Reference: Catalog. Dresden. 1992

Mushroom Art Registry: Flemish Baroque (ca. 1600-1750)

Mushroom Art Registry:
Flemish Baroque (ca. 1600-1750)