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| Keywords: Jean-Léon Gérôme - The Tulip Folly - Lossless.png Walters Art Museum artwork Q18748908 en Gérôme illustrates an incident during the tulipomania or the craze for tulips that swept the Netherlands and much of Europe during the 17th century The tulip originally imported from Turkey in the 16th century became an increasingly valuable commodity By 1636/7 tulipomania peaked and when the market crashed speculators were left with as little as 5 percent of their original investments In this scene a nobleman guards an exceptional bloom as soldiers trample flowerbeds in a vain attempt to stabilize the tulip market by limiting the supply 1882 Oil on canvas cm 65 4 100 ; Framed cm 99 58 132 72 12 7 accession number 37 2612 32905 Mary J Morgan Mary J Morgan Sale American Art Association New York March 3-15 1886 no 156 Hermann Schaus Sale American Art Galleries New York January 15-17 1912 lot 212 as The Tulip Craze Thomas Footer Cumberland 1912 by purchase Mr J C or G Evans as agent Mrs Cephas H Glass his daughter 1923 by gift Mrs Cyril Keene by inheritance Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Gift of Mrs Cyril W Keene 1983 J L Gérôme at right of lower center The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 Botanical Delights Floral Motifs in 19th-Century Art Strathmore Hall Art Center North Bethesda; Academy of the Arts Easton Easton; Government House Annapolis 1998-1999 A Discerning Eye Nineteenth-century Drawings and Watercolors Academy of the Arts Easton Easton 1998-1999 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid; J Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles; Musee D'Orsay Paris 2010-2011 place of origin Bologna Italy Lossy PD-old-100 History paintings by Jean-Léon Gérôme French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Tulips in art Bubbles in art Tulipomania in art Off the Wall Baltimore 1880s paintings from France 1882 paintings | ||||
