The Tulip Folly (1882)
No.20
Jean-Leon Gerome 1824-1904
The painting illustrates an incident during the craze for tulips which had swept the Netherlands and much of Europe. The tulip had become a very valuable commodity and by 1637 when the market crashed speculators were left with very little of their original investments. In the painting a nobleman is shown guarding an exceptional bloom as soldiers trample flowerbeds in a vain attempt to stabilize the tulip market by limiting the supply.
-o=0=o-
No comments:
Post a Comment