1750-1850 – Romanticism, Neoclassicism, etc.
(excluding Victorian Fairy Paintings)
Note: Included in this period is the phase of greatest productivity of the artist, not necessarily the dates of birth or death. Click on any thumbnail below to enlarge.
Audubon, John-James. French-American. Santo Domingo 1785-NY 1851
 | - American Pipit (Brown Titlark)
- Medium: Print
- 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
|
Bolze, Carl. German. Wolfratshausen 1801-1878
 | - Poisonous Mushrooms (Giftpilze) (plus two other still life paintings)
- Mushroom description: Amanita muscaria, A. phalloides, Armillaria mellea and other capped mushrooms
- Location: Private collection?
- Reference: Defrige & Zeller. Ein unbekannter Maler der Münschener Schule.
|
Bonvin, François. French. 1817-1887
- Still Life with Hare (Nature morte au lièvre)
- Mushroom description: Group of (probably) Agaricus
- Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris
- Reference: Joconde website.
- Web: http://www.culture.fr/documentation/joconde/ANVEG/anveg_02.htm click “champignon”
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Sidéon. French, 1699-1779
 | - The Copper Kettle (La marmite de cuivre) Still Life with Jug, Kettle and Ladle. 1750-60
- Mushroom description: Agaricus bisporus next to kitchen utensils. Possibly the earliest painting of this species
- Location: The Louvre, Paris
- Reference: Schug. Die 100 schönste Gemälde der Welt. Köln. 1990.
|
 | - [b]
- Attributed to Chardin
- 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]
- View from Mount Holyoke, North Hampton, Massachusetts, After a Storm. 1836
- Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 130.8 x 183
- Mushroom description. Polypores on dead trees
- Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Web: Metropolitan Museum of Art
|
 | - [b]
- View from Mount Video, the Seat of Daniel Wadsworth, Esq. 1928.
- Medium: Oils on panel; size: 50.2x66.2 in.
- Mushroom description: Polypores on dead trees
- Location: Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut
- Web: Wikimedia Commons
|
- [d]
- Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. 1827-8
- Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 100.9x138.4 in.
- Mushroom description: Polypores on dead trees
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Web: Olga's Gallery
- [e]
- A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains
- Medium: Oils on canvas, 102 x 155.8 inches
- Mushroom description: Polypores on tree trunk in right foreground
- Location: National Gallery, Washington, DC.
- Web: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Constable, John. British. 1776-1837
- [a]
- Flatford Mill (Scene on a navigable river). 1816-17.
- Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 1016 x 1270 mm. frame
- Mushroom description: Bracket fungi on tree in right foreground. Trametes or Stereum? Possibly vine leaves?
- Location: Tate Gallery, London
- Reference: "Constable" by Malcolm Cormack. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Referred by Susan Stewart.
- Web: Olga's Gallery
- [b]
- Edge of a wood. 1816.
- Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 92.1 x 72.1 cm.
- Mushroom description: Indistinct mushrooms in foreground
- Location: Toronto Art Gallery of Ontario
- Reference: "Constable" by Malcolm Cormack. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Referred by Susan Stewart.
- Web: Art Gallery of Toronto
Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille. French, 1796-1875
- Log Invaded by Mushrooms (Buche envahie par les champignons)
- Medium: Pencil drawing; size: 9.4 x 14.7 cm.
- Location: Louvre, Paris (dept. of graphic arts)
- Mushroom description: Several somewhat indistinct mushrooms, perhaps boletes, around a log
- Web: Joconde
Durand, Asher. American. 1796-1886
 | - Kindred Spirits. 1849
- Mushroom description: Indistinct mushrooms in left foreground
- Location: New York Public Library
- Web: New York Public Library
|
English School. Anonymous. 19th century
- A troop of Mushrooms and Toadstools
- Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 45.7 x 60.9 cm.
- Mushroom description: Several red and green russulas, a parasol mushroom, others
- Reference: Christie’s sale 7586, 22 May 2008
Eybl, Franz. Austrian. Vienna 1806-d. 1880
- Still life with boletes (Stilleben mit Steinpilzen)
- Mushroom description: Group of Boletus edulis and one Amanita caesarea?
French. Anonymous. 19th century
- 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]
- The Haymaker and the Sleeping Girl (The Mushroom Girl)
- Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 226 x 149 cm.
- Mushroom description: Basket of Agaricus sp. near sleeping girl
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Reference: Discussed in Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.
- [b]
- View in Suffolk. 1775
- Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 48x45 in.
- Mushroom description: Seated woman with probably field mushrooms.
- Reference: Thibauld, P. Eloge du Cépe.
- Location: St. Louis, Missouri Art Museum
- Note: Seen by members of the Missouri Mycological Society on a "museum foray," February 25, 2004
Gavarni, Paul. French. 1804-1866.
 | - 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)
- Medium: Print
- Location: Museum Carnavalet, Paris
- Web: Reunion des Musees Nationaux
|
Gillray, James. British. London 1757-1811
- An Excrescence - a Fungus: Alias a Toadstool upon a Dunghill. 1791
- Medium: Etching with publisher's watercolor; size: 25.5 x 22.5 cm.
- Mushroom description: A caricature of a mushroom with a human face
- Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.
- Reference: Published by Hannah Humphrey, December 20, 1791.
- Web: National Portrait Gallery, London
Glinzer, Carl. German. 1802-1878
- Nature Study(?). 1826
- Mushroom description: Red mushrooms
- Location: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Neue Gallerie, Kassel, Germany
- Reference: Catalog, Grimm Museum, Kassel, Germany
Grandville (pseudonym of Jean-Ignace Gérard). French. 1803-1847
- The Dream. 1847
- Medium: Woodcut
- Mushroom description: Transformation of stars into dragons into umbrellas into mushrooms
- Location: Unknown
- Reference: From Magasin Pittoresque in Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.
Grimm, Ludwig Emil. German. Hanau 1790-Kassel 1863
 | - Tree Stump (Baumstumpf). 1828
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Brown mushrooms on stump (Kuhneromyces?)
- Reference: Catalog, Grimm Museum, Kassel
|
Harpignies, Henri-Joseph. French. 1819-1916.
 | - The Village Church. 1891.
- Medium: Oils on canvas, 18x24 in.
- Location: St. Louis Missouri 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.
- Portrait of a Gentleman. Ca. 1750.
- Medium: Oils on canvas, 28x24 in.
- Location: St. Louis Missouri 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
- Still Life with Mushrooms and Fruits
- Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 69 x 57 cm.
- Mushroom description: About six mushrooms scattered, perhaps Boletus edulis
- Location: Ostergotlands Lansmuseum, Linköping, Sweden
Hugo, Victor. French. 1802-1885
 | - Champignon (first shown 1850)
- Medium: Ink, crayon, gouache, other; size: 47.4 x 60.8 cm.
- Mushroom description: A gigantic blue-staining bolete in a landscape.
- Location: Maison Victor Hugo, Paris (inventory no. 812)
- Web: matisse.lettres.free.fr
|
Hunt, William Henry. British. 1790-1864
- 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; size: 17 x 31.5 cm.
- Mushroom description: About a half dozen mushrooms, perhaps Agaricus campestris
- Location: Unknown
- Web: http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/gallery/be900e23.html
Innes, George. American. 1825-1894
- In the Roman Campagna. 1873
- Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 48x24 in.
- Mushroom description: White mushroom, perhaps Shaggy Mane (Macrolepiota procera) in lower left, by two sheep
- Location: St. Louis Missouri Art Museum
- 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]
- Portrait of a Young Man with Red Shirt and Basket Of Mushrooms (Portraet Junge mit rotem Hemd und Korb mit Pilzen)
- Mushroom description: Boletes
- Location: Unknown
- Note: Provided by Tjakko Stijve
- [b]
- Still Life with Fruits (Stilleben mit Früchte) 1839
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Boletes, gilled mushrooms, some with white, other with brown gills
- Location: Unknown
- Note: Provided by Tjakko Stijve
- [c]
- Basket of Mushrooms (Korb mit pilzen)
- Mushroom description: Various boletes, in background a chanterelle and a gilled mushroom
- Reference: Scala Archives website
- Location: Unknown
- Note: Provided by Tjakko Stijve
- [d]
- Still Life. 1839
- Medium: Oils on canvas
- Mushroom description: Basket of boletes, including Boletus edulis, Leccinum scabrum, and Xerocomus badius
- Location: The Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
- Web: http://www.abcgallery.com/K/khrutsky/khrutsky2.html
- [e]
- Still Life with Various Vegetables, Crayfish
- Mushroom description: Approximately six boletes, (possibly) Boletus pinicola
- Location: Odessa Museum, Russia
- Web:
- [f]
- Vegetables, Fruit and Dead Game. 1830s
- Medium: Oils on canvas
- Mushroom description: Group of brown mushrooms with velvety caps on right foreground, perhaps boletes
- Location: The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Web: http://www.abcgallery.com/K/khrutsky/khrutsky10.html
- [g]
- Beaten Game
- Medium Oils on canvas; size: 42.2 x 71.7 cm.
- Mushroom description: A cooking pot filled with Boletus edulis with lower parts of the stem cut off
- Location: National Museum, Belarus
- Web: WikiMedia Commons
Knapp, Johann. Austrian. 1778-1839
- Homage to Joachim (Huldigung an Joacquin). 1821-22
- Medium: Oils
- Mushroom description: Clathrus ruber, Agaricus bisporus, Cyathus striatus, Stereum sp. and (possibly) Peziza badia
- Location: Oberes Belvedere, Vienna
Koch, Joseph (Josef) Anton. Austrian. 1768-1839
- Heroic landscape with rainbow (Heroische Landschaft mit Regenbogen) (second version, 1804-1815)
- Location: Neue Pinakothek, Munich (Inventory no. 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 Prince, Jean Baptiste. French. 1768-1795
- The Mushrooms Seller
- Medium: Print; size: 12 x 8.7 cm.
- Mushroom description: Barely visible. Old woman carrying two baskets
- Location: British Museum. (registration no. 1853,1210,780)
La Thangue, Henry H. British. 1859-1929.
- Dawn: Gathering mushrooms
- Medium: 56 x 69 cm.
- Mushroom description: A girl stooped over a row of mushrooms, probably Agaricus campestris.
- Location: Unknown
- Reference: Gabrius website.
Lesourd de Beauregard, Ange-Louis-Guillaume. French. 1800-1885
- Vegetables, Cabbage and Radishes, Duck and Lobster, Eggs, and Mushrooms
- Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 61 x 53.3 cm.
- Mushroom description: Basket of Agaricus campestris
- Location: Sold by Sotheby’s, NY
- Reference: Greindl, E. Les Peintures Flamands de La Nature Morte aux XVIIe siécle. Sterrebeek. 1983.
Lewis, Henry. American (b. in England). 1819-1904
- Saint Louis in 1846. 1848
- Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 36 x 28 in.
- Mushroom description: Bracket fungus near or on slanted tree on lower left.
- Location: St. Louis Missouri Art Museum
- Note: Seen by members of the Missouri Mycological Society on a “museum foray,” February 25, 2004.
Michallon, Achille Etna. French, 1796-1822
- Entrance to a Cave Dug into the Ground, Surrounded by Trees (Entré d’une cave creusé dans le sol entouré d’arbres)
- Medium: Pencil drawing; size: 46 x 58 cm.
- Mushroom description: This is a drawing of a mushroom cave. Note at bottom: “A Issy la cave des champignons”
- Location: Louvre, Paris (Dept. of graphic arts)
- Web:
Oehme, Ernst Ferdinand. German. 1797-1855
- Hohnstein castle in the Saxonian Swiss mountains (Burg Hohnstein in der Sächsischen Schweiz) 1827
- Medium: Oils
- 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 (colored, very small).
- Note: Seen in 2002 by H. and K. Kreisel
Reynolds, Sir Joshua. British. Plympton 1723-London 1792
- Puck. 1789
- Medium: Oils
- Mushroom description: Forest scene with several cap mushrooms on the ground
- Reference: The Book of Fairies.
Richter, Johann Carl August. German. Dresden 1785-1853
- Still Life with Lemons, Mushrooms, Beets, Fish
- Mushroom description: Four mushrooms scattered in foreground, probably boletes
- Location: Unknown
- Reference: Gabrius website
Roland Delaporte, Henri Horace. French. Paris 1724 or 1725–1793
- [a]
- Still life with Basket of Eggs, Apples, One Mushroom (Le panier d’oefs). 1788
- Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 38 x 48 cm.
- Mushroom description: One lonely button, probably Agaricus campestris
- Location: Louvre, Paris
- Web: http://web.culture.fr/cgi-bin/lien?nature_morte,Roland.html
- [b]
- Still Life with Squash and Mushrooms (Nature Morte Au Potiron Et Aux Champignons)
- Reference: Joconde website
- Location: Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
- Web: http://www.culture.fr/documentation/joconde/ANVEG/anveg_02.htm click “champignon”
Rowlandson, T. British. 1756-1827
- The Last Gasp or Toadstools Mistaken for Mushrooms. 1813
- Medium: Print
- Mushroom description: Patient being examined by physician, ostensibly because of mushroom poisoning. No mushrooms seen
- Location: National Art Gallery Rosenwald Collection (1945.5.1232.)
- Web: http://www.skreb.co.uk/Rowlandson_The_Last_Gasp.jpg
Rusling-Meeker, Joseph. American. 1827-1887
- The Land of Evangeline. 1874
- Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 48x36 in.
- Location: St. Louis Missouri Art Museum
- Mushroom description: Scaly fungus on tree in lower center
- Note: Seen by members of the Missouri Mycological Society on a museum foray, February 25, 2004
Schwind, Moritz von. Austrian/German, Vienna 1804-Munich 1871.
- [a]
- Death and Poverty overcome the Idle (Mangel und Armut überfallen den Müssigen)
- Medium: Pen drawing. 1830
- Mushroom description: Group of cap mushrooms in left foreground
- Location: Unknown
- Reference: Orsini, V. Aus Mortiz von Schwind’s Fullhorn. Barmen. 1925.
- [b]
- 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]
- The Ride of Kuno von Falkenstein (Der Ritt Kunos von Falkenstein) 1843-44
- Medium: Oils.
- Mushroom description: Red polypores on a tree trunk.
- Location: Museum der bildenen Künste, Leipzig
- Reference: Orsini, V. Aus Mortiz von Schwind’s Fullhorn. Barmen. 1925.
- Note: Winkler. Museum der bildenen Künste Leipzig. Leipzig,Museum postcard, seen in 1981.
- [d]
- The Symphony (Die Symphonie)
- Medium: Etching and print, 1846. Plus pencil drawing, 1849
- 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)
- Location: Museum der bildenen Künste, Leipzig
- Note: Seen by HK in a special exhibition in Leipzig, 1997
- [e]
- Rübezahl (a figure in German mythology). 1851
- Medium: Oils
- Mushroom description: Five caps of Amanita muscaria in edge of a path.
- Location: Oberes Belvedere, Vienna
- Reference: 1. Museum diapositive 2. color folder. 3. colored postcard (F.A. Ackermann's Kunstverlag, München-Universal-Galerie, serie 213b, no. 2174b)
- [f]
- Rübezahl (a figure in German mythology). 1851-59
- Medium: Oils
- 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
Thornycroft, Mary, British. 1814-1895
- The Princess Alice
- Medium: Engraving.1848
- Mushroom description: Girl holding a mushroom in her right hand
- Note: Depicts Alice, Grand Duchess, consort of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, 1843-1878
- Web: http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/09e683dc.html
Turner, Joseph M. W. British. 1775-1851
- Gledhow
- Medium: Print engraved by G. Cooke, (after a Turner painting). Published 1816
- Mushroom description: A couple collecting mushrooms
- Location: Tate, London
- Web: http://www.tate.org.ukel/AWork?id=19690
Vallayer-Coster, Anne. French. 1744-1818
- Vase, Lobster, Fruits and Game (Vase, homard, fruits et gibier)
- Mushroom description: Single Boletus edulis on side in left foreground
- Location: Louvre, Paris
- 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
- Web: Europeana
Winck, Johannes C. T. German. 1738-1797
- [a]
- Flower with Butterflies and Lizard
- Medium: Oils on oak wood; size: 31 x 22.8 cm.
- Mushroom description: One or two campanulate mushrooms, perhaps Psathyrella
- Location: Schlossmuseum, Schloss Friedenstein. Gotha, Germany
- Web: 1st Art Gallery
- [b]
- Flowers with Butterflies and Toad
- Medium: Oils on oak wood; size: 31 x 22.8 cm.
- Mushroom description: One or two campanulate mushrooms, perhaps Psathyrella
- Location: Schlossmuseum, Schloss Friedenstein. Gotha, Germany
- Web: Bridgeman Art Gallery
back to top