Carrots depicted in the Fine Arts

Carrots have appeared in many great artworks over the years and in fact came to their rescue when plant biologists were trying to identify old species and the only records were in paintings such as these.

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The Miscellaneous Art Page includes other works of art. 

Also check out the Romantic Carrots of Greg Warren, mis-shapen carrots turned into works of art, and then eaten!

Every painting below has a larger, more detailed version which can be accessed by clicking on the appropriate picture. They are obviously larger files so will take a little time to download. Please be patient - they are worth it!
The Four Elements - Earth
1569-70 Joachim Beuckelaer
Still Life
1535-74 Joachim Beuckelaer


Quirin Gerritz van Brekelenkam
c1640s - 1668

Family seated round a kitchen fire

Levi Wells Prentice
(1851-1935)

Still Life with Cantaloupe, Tomatoes, and Carrots
Oil on canvas 12 x 16 inches

The Grocer's Shop 1647 (unknown artist) Oil on wood, Musée du Louvre, Paris The Quack 1652 (unknown artist) Oil on canvas, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Pieter Aertsen,
Christ and the Adulteress
1559 Oil on wood, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
Joachim Beuckelaer,
Market Woman with Fruit, Vegetables and Poultry 1564 Oil on oak, 118 x 170,5 cm Staatliche Museen, Kassel

Joachim Wtewael,
Kitchen Scene 1605 Oil on canvas, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Juan Sanchez Cotan,
Still-life c. 1600 Oil on canvas Hernani Collection, Madrid

François Boucher
Boy Holding a Carrot 1738

Joachim Beuckelaer,
Vegetable Seller Oil on wood, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Joachim Beuckler,
Woman Selling Vegetables Oil on canvas, Rockox House, Antwerp
Jan van Kessel,
Still-life with Vegetables Oil on canvas Civic Museum, Prato

Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez,
Peasants at the Table (El Almuerzo) c. 1620 Oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Frans Snyders,
Vegetable Still-Life c. 1600 Oil on canvas, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Continue the exhibition with two more pages of Carrots in Fine Art works  -  Page 2   Page 3

The Miscellaneous Art Page includes other works of art. 

Also check out the Romantic Carrots of Greg Warren, mis-shapen carrots turned into works of art, and then eaten!

 

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