Mushroom Art Registry:
Miscellaneous Baroque (ca. 1600-17500)
French Baroque
Desportes, Alexander-François. French. 1661-1743
- Title: Still life with basket of apples, basket of mushrooms, celery, trophies of a hunt, a cat
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom identification: Agaricus campestris
- Reference: Gabrius website
Le Roux (given names? Perhaps Hector). French? 1682-1740
- Title: Horseradishes, salad, mushrooms, a broken egg…
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom identification: A single Agaricus campestris on left foreground; maybe several more in a basket in background
- Reference: Gabrius website
Liégeois, Paul. French. Mid-17th century
- — A —
- Title: Still life with pears in a wicker basket and mushrooms scattered on the ground
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 91 cm.
- Location: Musée Sarosien, Chambery, France
- Mushroom description: Six Agaricus campestris
- Reference: Salvi, C. D’Apres Nature. Tournay, Belgium: Renaissance des Livres. 2000
- — B —
- Title: Still life with dish of peaches, pears and mushrooms. 1666
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 73 x 91 cm.
- Location: Private collection, Paris, France
- Mushroom description: Three or four Agaricus campestris
- Reference: Salvi, C. D’Apres Nature. Tournay, Belgium: Renaissance des Livres. 2000
- — C —
- Title: Still life with basket stuffed with prunes, peaches, and mushrooms
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 73.5 cm.
- Location: Private collection, Paris, France
- Mushroom description: Six Agaricus campestris
- Reference: Salvi. C. D’Apres Nature. Tournay, Belgium: Renaissance des Livres. 2000
Montfort, Octavianus. French. 17th-18th centuries?
- Title: Fungi, apricots, pears and other fruits in a Delft fruit bowl
- Mushroom description: Two indistinct boletes
- Reference: Gabrius website
Oudry, Jean Baptiste (attributed to). French. Paris 1686-Beauvais 1755
- Title: Still life with dog
- Location: Benelli Collection, Florence, Italy
- Mushroom description: Basket of indistinct boletes in background
- Web: Scala Archives
Strasbourg School, Anonymous. French. 17th centuryc
- Title: A lobster, prawns, crayfish, crab, oysters, shells and fungi on a, ledge
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom identification: Two Agaricus campestris in right foreground
- Reference: Gabrius website
Spanish Baroque
Maino, Juan Bautista. Spanish. Pastrana ca.1578-Madrid 1649
- Title: Adoration of the Magi (La adoración de los Reyes) ca. 1610
- Location: El Prado, Madrid
- Mushroom description: Foreground, two inconspicuous mushrooms, one showing a ring (Agaricus?)
- Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957. Clavell, Prado-Museum Spanische Kunst, Barcelona, 1991.
- Web: Web Gallery of Art
Melendez (or Menendez), Luis Eugenio. Spanish. Naples 1716 –Madrid 1780
- — A —
- Title: Still life with melons and pears. ca. 1770
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 63.8 x 85.1 cm.
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Mushroom description: Cap of a large yellow-orange mushroom (Cantharellus?) shown in a basket
- Web: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- — B —
- Title: Still life with pomegranates and mushrooms
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Several Agaricus on right; on left, somewhat stylized white capped mushroom with inrolled margin. Perhaps the beautiful but poisonous Agaricus xanthodermus (chrome yellow bulbs)
- Reference: Gabrius website
Mesquida, Antonio. Spanish. 17th century
- Note: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957, mentions that Robert Graves in Majorca owned a canvas dated 1656 with a fine display of Lactarius sanguifluus, attributed to this Majorcan artist
Spanish School. Anonymous, 17th century
- Title: Still life of melon in a bowl with figs and mushrooms
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Bolete(?) on left
- Reference: Gabrius website
Zurbaran Francisco. Spanish. Fuente de Cantos 1598-Madrid 1664
- Title: Circle of pears and mushrooms on a ledge
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Five Agaricus (probably) campestris
- Reference: Gabrius website
Baroque, other countries
Cöln, David von. Swedish. c. 1690-1763. (Attribution uncertain.)
- Title: Still life with a mushroom
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 62 x 83 cm.
- Location: National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. (# NMDrh 769)
- Mushroom description: An upside-down Agaricus
- Note: Xerox in Elio Schaechter’s collection
Hamilton, Frans. Scottish? 17th -18th centuries?
- Title: Still life
- Location: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich, Germany
- Mushroom description: Two gilled mushrooms and group of small mushrooms in foreground
- Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon.
Spanish. Anonymous. 17th century
- Title: Still life with mushrooms (Nature morte aux champignons)
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 69x90 cm.
- Location: Musee Goya-Jaurés, Castres, France (Reproduction not seen)
- Reference: Joconde website
Stranover, Tobias. Hungarian. Active 1684 – 1731
- Title: Still life of carrots, a cauliflower, cabbage, artichokes, mushrooms, a pumpkin and other vegetables, various fruits in a basket, with a monkey
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Several Amanita caesarea on right
- Reference: Gabrius website