The Fruit Basket

The Fruit Basket or Reversible Head with a Fruit Basket is a c.1590 oil-on-panel still life by the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

It is held in the French & Company collection, in New York.

[1] When inverted, it shows an anthropomorphic head by pareidolia.

It may have been the inspiration for Caravaggio's painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit.

It may have also had an influence on Fede Galizia and Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, who would both later painted a number of fruit still lifes.

The painting inverted and the right way up