Works Attributed to Paolo Porpora

[a] Still life with fungi, snail, toads, snakes

• Medium: Oil on canvas, 36 x 64 cm.
• Location: Museo Villa Pignatelli. Naples, Italy
• Mushroom description: Group of morels (Morchella esculenta var. crassipes) and half an agaric
• References: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. 1999; Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957; Catalog by Mund, G. and von Hohenzollern, J.P. ExhibitionStille Welt– Italienische Stillleben. Kunsthalle der Hypo Kulturstiftung. 2003.
• Web: Wikimedia

[b] Still life with owl and ibis. Vanity (Nature morte avec une chouette et un ibis. Vanite)

• Location: Louvre, Paris
• Web: Last seen on Joconde website

[c] Still life with snakes, fly agarics, and thistles

• Medium: Oil on canvas, 35 x 48 cm.
• Location: National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
• Mushroom description: A group of four amanitas, possibly A. muscaria

[d] Forest understory (Sottobosco) with snake, green lizard, turtles and butterflies (Sottobosco con biscione, ramarro, tartaruga e farfalle)

• Medium: Oil on canvas, 51 x 94.5 cm.
• Location: National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, UK
• Mushroom description: Group of mushrooms, incl. Agrocybe cylindracea (= aegerita)and Russula sp.
• Reference: Ebert-Schlifferen, S. A still Life. A History. Abrams; Catalog by Mund, G. and von Hohenzollern, J.P. Exhibition: Stille Welt– Italienische Stillleben. Kunsthalle der Hypo Kulturstiftung. 2003
• Web: National Museum Wales

[e] Mushrooms, lizard, porcupine and butterflies (Fiori, funghi, lucertola, porcospino e farfalle)

• Mushroom description: Ramaria botrytis clump, Amanita caesarea on right
• Reference: Sestieri, G. Nature Morte e Paesaggi Italiani ed Europei del XVII e XVIII secolo. Giandi Sapi Editori. 1993.

[f] Still life with fruit

• Medium: Oil on canvas, 98 x 125 cm.
• Location: Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
• Mushroom description: Six Amanita caesarea buttons
• Reference: Pike, JT. Italian Still life Paintings. NY: Old Masters Exhibition Society. 1983.

[g] Fungi on a bank

• Mushroom description: Group of annulate gilled mushrooms, some cespitose, probably Agrocybe agerita
• Reference: Last seen on Gabrius website

[h] A tortoise, crab, snail, crayfish and a butterfly among plants, rocks and mushrooms

• Mushroom description: Two Amanita caesarea
• Reference: Last seen on Gabrius website

[i] Forest floor still life with a porcupine, rabbit, ducks, tortoises and a snail

• Mushroom description: Craterellus fallax? on left foreground
• Reference: Last seen on Gabrius website

[j] Pastry with mushrooms, olives, peppers, an apple and other vegetables on a plate on a draped table

• Mushroom description: Single whitish agaric on it side
• Note: Elsewhere in Gabrius website, attributed to “Bergamo School,” 18th century
• Reference: Last seen on Gabrius website

[k] Sottobosco (Forest Understory)

• Medium: Oil on canvas, 135 x 95 cm.
• Location: Private collection, Milan, Italy
• Mushroom description: Group of campanulate mushrooms on a rocky ledge

[l] Forest understory (sottobosco) with crab, butterflies, toads, mussels and tortoise

• Location: Museo Villa Pignatelli, Naples, Italy
• Mushroom description: Several indeterminable pileated mushrooms
• Reference: Catalog by Mund, G. and von Hohenzollern, J.P. Exhibition: Stille Welt— Italienische Stillleben. Kunsthalle der Hypo Kulturstiftung. 2003.

[m] Title unknown

• Mushroom description: boletus, russulas and other mushrooms on a ledge
• Reference: Last seen on Gabrius website

[n] Title unknown

• Mushroom description: a forest floor still life with a stoat beside a pool
• Reference: Last seen on Gabrius website

[o] A magpie perched on a branch with fungi in the foreground

• Medium: Oil on canvas, 55.6 x 43.2 cm.
• Mushroom description: A group of 5 Amanita caesarea in foreground
• Location: unknown
• Reference: Christie’s auction, Sale 8138, 23 Sept. 1998. London.