Dutch Baroque (ca. 1600-1750)

A varied collection of forest understory still lifes, kitchen scene still lifes, landscapes, allegories, and others. Both edible and non-species are depicted in a natural style. Most species are identifiable.

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Begeyn, Abraham. Dutch. Leyden ca. 1635-Berlin 1710

Still Life

Mushroom description: Group of agarics
Location: Galleria d’Arte Anticha, Rome
Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. New York: Pantheon Books. 1957.

Berchem, Nicolaes. Dutch. Haarlem 1620-Amsterdam 1683

Forest Understory Still Life with Thistle (Waldbodenstilleben mit Distel)

Medium: Oils on wood; size: 91 x 76 cm.
Mushroom description: Several gilled Hymenomycetes
Location: Unknown
Reference: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. 1999.

Boelema de Stomme, Maerten. Dutch. ca. 1642- c.1673

The Truffle Pie

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 60 x 79.5 cm.
Mushroom description: Pie with dark contents, ostensibly including truffles
Location: Musée des Beaux Artes, Nantes, France
Reference: La Truffe, secrets et plaisirs. Spécial Champignon Hors Série. 2000. Pagnol, Jean. La Truffe. Ed. Aubanel, 2000.

Biltius, Jacobus. Dutch. 1633-1681

Still Life with Venison (“gibier”), Birds, Basket of Mushrooms and Cabbage

Mushroom description: Indistinct agarics
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

Borssom, Anthonie van. Dutch. Amsterdam 1629 or 30-1677

Forest Understory Still Life with Thistle and Animals (Waldbodenstilleben mit Distel und Tieren)

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 62 x 49
Mushroom description: Four robust mushrooms cf. Leucoagaricus excoriatus on right foreground, with cracked caps
Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland
Reference: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. 1999.

Both, Jan Dirksz. Dutch. Utrecht ca.1615 or 1618-1652

Italian Landscape

Mushroom description: living tree with a polypore (?) at its foot (left side)
Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Reference: Seen by D. Thoen in 1982

Boucle, Van Peter. Flemish. 1610?-1673

[a] Kitchen Still Life Of Game, Meat, Freshwater and Sea Crustacean, Grapes…

Mushroom description: Several indistinct mushrooms on left foreground
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[b] Still life of fish and vegetables in baskets and copper dishes set in a kitchen interior, a cat and dog amongst the foodstuffs and a window with a landscape beyond

Oil on Canvas, 123 x 160 cm
Mushroom Description: Possible agaricus, just above center
Reference: Sotheby’s New York 29 October 2018 lot 28

[c] Fruit Stall with a Couple

Oil on Canvas, 187.5 x 288 cm, before 1650
Mushroom Description: Agarics, possible boletes, lower right in basket
Location: Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology, Besancon, France
Reference: WikiMedia

[e] Hunting Still Life With Vegetables, Two Dogs

Oil on Canvas, 80.7 x 101 cm
Mushroom Description: Possible agaricus bottom, center right
Reference: Rkd website, Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague
Auctioned by Christie’s, 1984

Broeck, Elias Van den. Dutch. Amsterdam 1657-Amsterdam 1708

[a] Forest Floor Still Life with a Bird’s Nest, Toadstools, Snails, Blackberries, Tortoiseshell, Aurora and Common Blue Butterfly

Mushroom description: Two red campanulate mushrooms in left foreground
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[b] A Forest Floor Still Life Of Wild Roses, Vines and Toadstools with a Red Admiral, a Snail, Caterpillar and Damselflies

Mushroom description: Two agarics seen (in black and white, thus of indeterminate color)
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[c] Forest Floor Still Life with a Snake Threatening a Lizard by a Clump of Toadstools, a Snail and a Butterfly Nearby

Mushroom description: Clump of reddish-brown mushrooms, one with cracked cap cuticle
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[d] Still Life on Forest Floor with Flowers, Mushrooms, and Snails

Mushroom description: Group of four or five campanulate red-capped mushrooms on forest floor
Location: Private collection

[e] Flowers in a Landscape with Lizard

Mushroom description: Lower left corner: a mushroom with a rufous cap
Location: unknown
Reference: Sotheby’s, New York, auction January 22, 2004

De Moucheron, Frederick. Dutch. Emden 1633-Amsterdam 1686

Mountain Landscape

Mushroom description: Cluster of Coprinus or Psathyrella at the foot of a beech tree
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Note: Seen by D. Thoen

Dutch School. Anonymous. 17th century

Allegorical subject

Mushroom description: Ramaria, Amanita, Cantharellus?, lichen, lizard and two white butterflies
Location: Museum of Rouen, France
Reference: La Revue du Louvre. 20ème année, no.3, 1970.

Grasdorp, Willem. Dutch. Zwolle 1678-Amsterdam 1723

[a] 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
Found in: Gabrius website

[b] Still Life

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 40.5 x 33 cm.
Mushrooms description: Grapes, plums, peaches, medlars, a snail and in lower right corner with four Mycena (?)
Location: unknown
Reference: Gallery Notes, John Mitchell and Son, London.

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. New York: 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] Peaches, Grapes, Walnuts, Mushrooms, Snails and a Thistle, on a River Bank

Mushroom description: Group of indistinctive reddish capped mushrooms on left
Location: Unknown

[c] Still Life with Fruits and Mushrooms

Mushroom description: Group of unidentified mushrooms
Location: Dyrham Park, National Trust, United Kingdom

Heem, Jan Davidz de. Dutch. Utrecht 1606-Antwerp 1684

[a] Blossoms in Landscape on Stone Pedestal (Blüten in Landschaft auf Steinsockel)

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 56.5 x 35 cm.
Mushroom description: Two or three mushrooms with cap on right foreground
Location: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Reference: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. 1999.

[b] Still Life

Mushroom description: Hydnellum aurantiacum, Kuenheromyces mutabilis and other mushrooms
Location: Turin, Italy
Reference: S. Killermann, 1927

[c] Peaches, Grapes, Walnuts, Mushrooms, Snails and a Thistle, on a River Bank

Mushroom description: Mushrooms difficult to distinguish
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

Heem, Jan Davidsz de. Dutch. 1606 - 1654 [and] Mignon, Abraham. German. 1640 - 1679

Landscape of a Stream with Plants and Animals (Bachlandschaft mit Pflanzen und Tieren) ca. 1670

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 113 x 131 cm.
Mushroom description: Lower middle: unidentified mushrooms, Psathyrella
Location: unknown
Reference: Grimm, C. Is this a book? more info? Stilleben. Die niederländischen und deutschen Meister. Stuttgart/Zürich: 1988.

Heem, Jan Jansz. Dutch. 1650- ca. 1695 (attributed to)

Still life with lobster

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 118 x 170 cm.
Mushroom description: About six Boletus edulis
Location: Wallace Collection, London
Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957. (reverse image).

Henstenburgh, Herman. Dutch. Hoorn 1667-Hoorn 1726

Thistles, Daisies and Mushrooms by a Pond…

Mushroom description: Campanulate mushrooms in the foreground
Location: unknown

Hondecoeter, Melchior de. Dutch. Utrecht 1636-Amsterdam 1695

[a] Birds and Butterflies among Plants. 1668

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 68.3 x 56.8 cm.
Mushroom description: About five Psathyrella candolleana in foreground of outdoors scene
Location: National Gallery, London. (Inventory # NG 122)
Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.

[b] Animals and Plants (Dieren en planten)

Location: Centraalmuseum, Utrecht
Note: Similar to above in National Gallery, London, UK. Similar to above in National Gallery, London, UK. Elio Schaechter has an old postcard with this painting and museum location, but the museum states that they do not own it.

[c] Still life

Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland
Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.
Note: Similar to above in National Gallery, London, UK.

[d] Poultry in Parkland

Mushroom description: Indistinct red capped mushrooms in foreground
Location: Unknown
Web: Bridgeman Art Library

[e] Farmyard Still Life with Chickens and other Birds, a Frog and Mushrooms

Mushroom description: Four red capped boletes with red pores
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[f] Title unknown

Mushroom description: Lower right corner: two agarics, one on the right of a cock, the other upside down on the ground
Reference: The European Fine Art Fair. Maastricht, Netherlands. 1990.

Houbraken, Niccolino van. Dutch. 1660-1723 or Messina, 1668-Pisa, 1720

[a] Still Life of Mushrooms and Poppies at the Foot of a Bush

Mushroom description: Group of probable Amanita caesarea
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[b] Forest Understory

Mushroom description: Two reddish capped mushrooms
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[c] Weasel in Understory near Mushrooms (Wiesel im Unterholz neben)

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 60 x 75 cm.
Mushroom description: Three brown capped boletes
Location: Pilzen (in an 18th century frame)

Kerckhoven, Jacob van de (called Jacopo da Castello). Dutch. 1637-1712

[a] 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
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[b] A Dead Cockerel and Snipe and Other Birds on a Ledge with Doves, a Duck, Funghi and Vegetables

Mushroom description: Several indistinct boletes?
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[c] 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
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

Lachtropius, Nicolaes. Dutch. Active 1656-1700

[a] Forest Understory Still Life with Mushrooms and Butterflies. (Waldbodenstilleben mit Pilzen und Schmetterlinge)

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 31 x 25.5 cm.
Mushroom description : Two prominent Coprinus comatus, Coprinus cf. atramentarius and several smaller ones
Location: Narodni Gallery, Prague
Reference: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. 1999.

[b] Allegoric subject

Medium: Oils; size: 40.6 x 32.7 cm.
Mushroom description: Lower left corner: gilled mushroom near a snake
Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chambéry, France
Reference: Colored postcard published by the museum

Lastman, Pieter. Dutch. Amsterdam, 1583-1633

The Massacre of the Children in Bethlehem (Der bethlehemitische Kindermord)

Mushroom description: Right corner, below: probably five grayish blue mushrooms
Location: Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig, Germany

Myn, Herman van der. Dutch. Amsterdam 1684-London 1741

[a] 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
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[b] Still Life with Mushrooms and Butterflies

Location: Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
Note: Seen in 2002 by H. and K. Kreisel
Found in: Joconde website
Web: Art Prints On Demand

Neer, Eglon Hendrik van der. Dutch. Amsterdam 1634-Düsseldorf 1703

Tobias with the Angel in a Forest (Tobias mit dem Engel in Waldlandschaft) 1690-1700

Location: Museum of Karlsruhe, Germany

Oolen, Adriaen von (=Alen). Dutch. 1630-1694

Untitled

Mushroom description: Lactarius deliciosus and Tricholoma aurantiacum in a poultry yard
Location: Bamberg Gallerie, Germany
Note: Mentioned by S. Killerman, 1927

Ostade, Isaack van. Dutch. 1621-1649

Canal Landscape (Kanallandschaft)

Mushroom description: Polypores high on tree trunk
Location: Ermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Note: Seen by K. Bickerich

Pijnacker, Adam. Dutch. Pijnacker near Delft, 1622-Amsterdam, 1673

Southern Landscape with Shepherds

Mushroom description: Polypore (Fomes?) on a dead tree (Betula?)
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Note: Seen by D. Thoen

Rembrandt, Hermensz van Rijn. Dutch. Leyden, 1606-Amsterdam, 1699

[a] Diana Bathing with her Nymphs ca. 1650

Medium: Oils
Mushroom description: Marasmius oreades
Location: Museum Wasserburg, Anholt, Germany (previously, Lichtenstein Gallery, Vienna)

[b] The Baptism of the Eastern Chamberlain. 1641

Mushroom description: Fallen cap mushrooms (Macrolepiota?) near a horse’s hoof
Note: Information provided by H. Marxmüller

Roepel, Coenraet. Dutch. The Hague 1678-1748

Still Life with Bunches of Grapes, an Ear of Wheat, Raspberries, Acorns, Toadstools, Daisies…

Medium: print
Mushroom description: Indistinct agarics
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

Ruysch, Rachel. Dutch. Amsterdam 1664-1750

[a] Forest Understory with Poppies, Carnations, Corn Flowers, Mushrooms and Insects. 1683

Reference: Kunst und Antiquitäten. 1993.
Note: Last located at auction in London

[b] Still Life

Mushroom description: Group of red, campanulate mushrooms with cracked caps
Location: Unknown
Web: Bridgeman Art Library

[c] Flowers on a Tree Trunk (Blumen aus einem Baumstamm)

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 93 x 74 cm.
Mushroom description: Coprinus cf. micaceus on left foreground
Location: State Collection, Kassel, Germany
Reference: 1. Schneider, Stillleben, Cologne 1989. Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. 1999. 2. Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.

[d] Peaches, Grapes, Melons, a Corncob, Plums, Pears, a Thistle, Acorns, Chestnuts, Raspberries, Toadstools…

Mushroom description: Indistinct agarics
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[e] Flowers and Animals in Front of a Cliff. 1865-87

Medium: Oils on canvas
Mushroom description: Two little agarics and a toad in the lower left corner
Location: Galerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Reference: Goes, André van der (ed.). Tulpomanie. Zwolle and Dresden. 2004. (frontispiece)

Savery, Roelant. Dutch (Flemish origin). Courtrai (Kortrijk, Belgium) 1576-Utrecht 1639.

[a] Orpheus

Medium: Oils on oak; size: 53 x 81.5 cm.
Mushroom description: not available
Location: National Gallery, London
Web: National Gallery

[b] Forest Scene with Hunter. ca. 1615

Medium: Oils
Mushroom description: Group of 5 Lepiotas or Agaricus (annulated agarics) at base of conifer tree
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Note: Seen by Elio Schaechter

Schooten, Floris Gerritsz van. Dutch. ca. 1585, active in Haarlem from 1612-1655

A Couple by a Kitchen Table (Un couple près d’une table de cuisine)

Medium: Oils on panel; size: 108 x 150.2 cm.
Mushroom description: Lower left corner: on a table, basket of Agaricus with cut stipes
Location: unknown
Reference: Christie’s, Amsterdam, 20-06-1989. (no. 134)

Schrieck, Otto Marseus van. Nijmegen 1619-20-Amsterdam 1678

Note: A large number of still lifes containing mushrooms have been attributed to this Dutch painter. Please go to the complete listing for this artist. Here we include just a few samples of his work.

[a] Still Life with Insects and Amphibians (Stilleben mit Insekten und Amphibien). 1662

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 50.7 x 68.5 cm.
Mushroom description: Two Amanita caesarea, one agaric with partial veil, and a clump of coral mushrooms
Location: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, Germany (Inventory # GG 431)
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.

[b] Still Life with Poppy, Insects and Reptiles

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 68.3 x 52.7 cm.
Mushroom description: Four or five gilled mushrooms
Location: Metropolitan Museum, New York
Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.
Web: Metropolitan Museum

[c] Moth with Mushrooms or (Butterfly with Mushrooms)

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 32.5 x 41.5 cm.
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
Location: Kunstmuseum. Basel, Switzerland. (Inv. No. 1500)

Simons, Michiel. Dutch. 1620-1673

[a] 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
- Location: unknown
- Found in: Gabrius website

[b] Still Life of Fruit, Peaches and Mushrooms Scattered on the Ground

- Mushroom description: Two indistinct reddish capped mushrooms
- Location: unknown
- Found in: Gabrius website

Uyttenbroeck, Moyses van. Dutch. Hague, ca. 1590-1647

Juno, Argus and Io (Juno, Argus und Jo)

Medium: Oils
Mushroom description: Group of hard to distinguish olive-gray cap mushrooms in left background
Location: Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Found in: Catalog. Alte Pinakothek. Munich: 1999.

Venne, Adriaen Pietersz van. Dutch. Den Haag, 1589-1662

The Four Seasons: Autumn

Medium: Oils on pane; size: 37.5 x 15 cm.
Mushroom description: Mushrooms (indistinct) and mussel shells on the ground
Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no SK-A-1774)

Vroomans, Isaac (known as Slangenschilder). Dutch. ca. 1655-1719

[a] Flowers in a Sculpted Urn with Lizard, a Snake, Toadstools, Butterflies, an Overturned Urn and Peonies on a Forest Floor

Mushroom description: Indistinct agarics
Location: unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[b] Plant Still Life (Pflanzenstilleben)

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 80.5 x 65 cm.
Mushroom description: Lower left corner: a mushroom (Psathyrella ?)
Location: unknown
Reference: Lempertz-Auktion. Alte Kunst. Katalog 540. 1974.

Werff, Adriaen van der. Dutch. Kralingen Ambacht 1659- Rotterdam 1722

Shepard Scene (Schäferszene) 1689

Mushroom description: At the foot of the shepherd and shepherdess, a group of agarics (Coprinus atramentarius? and two Psathyrella ?)
Location: Museum of Dresden, Germany
Note: Seen by D. Thoen

Withoos, Matthias (also Withous. Called Calzetta Bianca). Dutch. Amersfoort 1625 or 1626-Hoorn 1703

[a] Forest Understory Still Life with Toads and Lizard in a Landscape (Erdbodenstilleben mit Kröte und Eidechse in einer Landschaft)

Medium: Oils on canvas; size: 101 x 80.3 cm.
Mushroom description: Two brown gilled mushrooms (collybioid?) on the ground, one with upturned cap edges
Location: Private collection
Reference: Sestieri, G. Nature Morte e Paesaggi Italiani ed Europei del XVII e XVIII secolo. Giandi Sapi Editori. 1993.
Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. 1999.

[b] Hollyhocks, Roses, a Blue-Lace Flower, a Sunflower and Toadstools, with Marigolds in an Urn by a Tree

Mushroom description: Two, possibly, Amanita muscaria
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[c] Poppies, Honeysuckle, Toadstools and Butterflies in Forest

Mushroom description: Indistinct agarics
Location: Unknown
Found in: Gabrius website

[d] Still Life

Medium: Oils on canvas, 106 x 84 cm.
Mushroom description: Campanulate mushrooms in right foreground, reminiscent of Coprinus atramentarius
Location: Unknown

[e] Mors omnia vincit (Death Conquers All). ca. 1660

Medium: Oil; size: 82 x 67.5 cm.
Mushroom description: Middle lower part: a mushroom among skulls
Location: Musée Jeanne d’Aboville, La Fère, France
Reference: Debrie, C. Les Natures mortes du Musée Jeanne d’Aboville.

[f] (Circle of) Herbs, Insects and Flowers

Medium: Oils on canvas
Mushroom description: Right lower corner: Lactarius (?) with a reddish orange depressed cap, near a tortoise and a lizard
Location: Galerie Spada, Collection Fabrizio Spada, Rome

Wouwerman, Philips. Dutch. Haarlem 1619-1668

By the Forge. (vor der Schmiede)

Mushroom description: Perhaps polypores on dead tree
Location: Staatskunstsammlung, Kassel, Germany
Note: Seen by K. Bickerich