Baroque: French, Spanish and Other (ca. 1600-1750)

Listed separately are Baroque paintings from France, Spain, Hungary, and Scotland.

French Baroque (ca. 1600-1750)

Baugin, Lubin. French, Pithiviers ca. 1610 - Paris 1663.

Kitchen Still life. 1630

Location: Galleria Spada, Rome

Baugin, Lubin and Boucle Pierre. French and Dutch.

Kitchen Still life

Size: 148 x 330 cm.
Mushroom description: Vegetables, fishes, shellfish, wild, dish with agarics, basket with ceps (?)
Location: Private collection, Bruxelles
Reference: Illustrated in Michel Faré, Le Grand Siècle de la nature morte en France: Le XVIIe Siècle, Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1974

De la Corte, Juan. Spanish. 1590-1662

The Triumph Of David

Medium: Oils on canvas; Size: 121 x 188.5 cm.
Mushroom description: Three applanate polypores on tree at left
Location: Collection Perez Simon, Mexico City

Desportes, Alexandre-François French, Champigneule, Marne 1661 - 1743 Paris

A still life of game with a musket, baskets of apples and mushrooms, a bunch of celery, two cauliflowers and a cat

Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 90 x 118 cm.
Mushroom description: Basket of perhaps cultivated Agaricus bisporus. If so, this may be the first depiction of cultivated A. bisporus.
Location: unknown
Reference: Sotheby’s Auction. Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium: $312,000 USD

Huilliot, Pierre-Nicolas. French, Paris 1674 - Ibid. 1751.

Vegetables in a niche. 1742

Medium: oil on canvas; size: 170 x 110 cm.
Mushroom description: Agarics, turnips, radishes, cabbages, pumpkin, celery, artichokes, asparagus
Location: Private collection, Paris
Mushroom description: They look close to cultivated Agaricus

Jeaurat de Berty, Nicolas-Henry. French, 1728-1796.

Vegetables, pumpkin, and cheese (Légumes, citrouille et fromage)

Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 71 x 91 cm.
Mushroom description: Basket filled with agarics, onions, pears, celery, pumpkin
Location: Museum of Rouen, France
Note: seen by D. Thoen

Le Roux (given names? Perhaps Hector). French? 1682-1740.

Horseradishes, salad, mushrooms, a broken egg…

Mushroom identification: A single Agaricus campestris on left foreground; maybe several more in a basket in background.
Location: Unknown
Reference : Last seen on Gabrius website

Liégeois, Paul. French. Mid-17th century.

[a] Still life with pears in a wicker basket and mushrooms scattered on the ground

Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 65.5 x 91 cm.
Mushroom description: Six Agaricus campestris
Location: Musée Sarosien, Chambery, France
Reference: Salvi, C. D’Apres Nature. Tournay, Belgium: Renaissance des Livres. 2000.

[b] Still life with dish of peaches, pears and mushrooms. 1666

Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 73 x 91 cm.
Mushroom description: Three or four Agaricus campestris
Location: Private collection, Paris, France
Reference: Salvi, C. D’Apres Nature. Tournay, Belgium: Renaissance des Livres. 2000.

[c] Still life with basket stuffed with prunes, peaches, and mushrooms

Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 85.5 x 73.5 cm.
Mushroom description: Six Agaricus campestris
Location: Private collection, Paris, France
Reference: Salvi. C. D’Apres Nature. Tournay, Belgium: Renaissance des Livres. 2000.

Montfort, Octavianus. (Circle of) French. 17th-18th centuries?

[a] Fungi, apricots, pears and other fruits in a Delft fruit bowl

Mushroom description: Two indistinct boletes
Reference : Last seen on Gabrius website

[b] Still life with oranges, lemons, figs, mushrooms, roses and carnations in a brass dish, etc.

Medium: Black chalk, bodycolour, on vellum; size: 40 x 55.2 cm. each (a pair)
Mushroom description: Upper panel, probably Leccinum duriusculum Lower panel, unidentifiable mushroom?
Reference: Christie’s auction. Sale 7409. Old Master And 19^th Century Drawings. 3 July 2007. London, King Street
Location: Unknown
Web: Christie’s Auction

Oudry, Jean Baptiste (attributed to). French. Paris 1686-Beauvais 1755.

[a] Still life with dog

Mushroom description: Basket of indistinct boletes in background
Location: Benelli Collection, Florence, Italy

[b] Still life

Mushroom description: Agarics
Location: Museum of Schwerin, Germany
Reference: Museum catalog n° 768
Description: Turnips, salad, artichokes, onions, cabbages, radishes, mushrooms, cucumbers, thistles and red flowers
Note: seen by D. Thoen

Strasbourg School, Anonymous. French. 17th century.

A lobster, prawns, crayfish, crab, oysters, shells and fungi on a ledge

Location: Unknown
Mushroom identification: Two Agaricus campestris in right foreground
Reference : Last seen on Gabrius website

Spanish Baroque (ca. 1600-1750)

Anonymous, Spanish School, 16-17th century

Still life. ca. 1600

Medium: oil on canvas; size: 61 x 83 cm.
Mushroom description: A basket of edible? mushrooms close to two dishes with two eggs and two fish
Reference: Lempertz-Auktion, Alte Kunst, Katalog 545, black and white illustration. n°222

Anonymous, Spanish. 17th century

Still life with mushrooms. (Nature morte aux champignons)

Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 69 X 90 cm.
Location: Musee Goya-Jaurés, Castres, France. (Reproduction not seen)
Reference: Joconde website

Anonymous, Spanish School. 17th century.

Still life of melon in a bowl with figs and mushrooms

Mushroom description: Bolete(?) on left
Location: Unknown
Reference : Last seen on Gabrius website

Anonymous, Spanish School, 17th century.

Still life with pomegranate or Still life with mushrooms and celery (old title)

(Nature morte aux grenades, Nature morte aux champignons et aux céleris [titre ancien])
Mushroom description: not available
Location: Museum Goya-Jaurès, Castres, France
Reference: Joconde website (no illustration)

Ledesma, Blas de (follower of). Spanish, 16th century.

A Still life of mushrooms and fruit

Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 54.5 x 80 cm.
Mushroom description: Amanita caesarea, Boletus edulis, grenade, grapes…
Reference: Sotheby’s Catalogue, April 1985, fig. 145

Maino, Juan Bautista. Spanish. Pastrana. ca. 1578-Madrid 1649

Adoration of the Magi. (La adoración de los Reyes.) ca. 1610

Mushroom description: Foreground, two inconspicuous mushrooms, one showing a ring (Agaricus?)
Location: El Prado, Madrid
Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957. Clavell, Prado-Museum Spanische Kunst, Barcelona, 1991.

Melendez (or Menendez), Luis Eugenio. Spanish. Naples 1716 –Madrid 1780.

[a] Still life with melons and pears. ca. 1770

Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 63.8 x 85.1 cm.
Mushroom description: Cap of a large yellow-orange mushroom (Cantharellus?) shown in a basket
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[b] Still life with pomegranates and mushrooms

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).
Location: Unknown
Reference : Last seen on Gabrius website

Mesquida, Antonio. Spanish. 17th century.

Reference: 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.

Zurbaran, Francisco. Spanish. Fuente de Cantos 1598-Madrid 1664.

[a] Circle of pears and mushrooms on a ledge

Mushroom description: Five Agaricus (probably) campestris
Location: Unknown
Reference: Last seen on Gabrius website

[b] School of Nuts, cheese, grapes, almonds and mushrooms

Location: Art Institute, Chicago

Baroque, other countries

Anonymous. Nationality and period unknown

Still life of mushrooms

Mushroom description: Four Agaricus in a dish
Location: Private collection
Reference: Les plaisirs de l’automne, Olivier Calon. Paris: Du May, 1995, 125 pp., p. 121.

Bogdani, Jacob. (follower of) Hungarian. 1658/60 -1724.

Chickens and other birds in an extensive landscape

Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 67.5 x 106 cm.
Mushroom description: Two agarics, in the lower right corner
Location: unknown
Reference: Sotheby’s – Old Master Paintings, London 28-10-1992, p. 65, fig. 112

Cöln, David von. Swedish. c. 1690-1763. (Attribution uncertain)

Still life with a mushroom

Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 62 x 83 cm.
Mushroom description: An upside-down Agaricus
Location: National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. (# NMDrh 769)
Note: Xerox in Elio Schaechter’s collection

Hamilton, James. Scottish, ca. 1640-1720

Still life with tree, daisy, …

Location: The Leger Galleries, London
Reference: communicated to D. Thoen by Robert S. Marks, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1987

Hamilton, Frans. Scottish? 17th -18th centuries?

Still life

Mushroom description: Two gilled mushrooms and group of small mushrooms in foreground
Location: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich, Germany
Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon

Stranover, Tobias. Hungarian. Active 1684 – 1731

Still life of carrots, a cauliflower, cabbage, artichokes, mushrooms, a pumpkin and other vegetables, various fruits in a basket, with a monkey

Mushroom description: Several Amanita caesarea on right
Location: Unknown
Reference: Last seen on Gabrius website