Study for ""The Tulip Folly""

19th century

20 cm 32.2 cm

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This drawing is related to a painting showing an incident during the "tulipomania" in Holland in the 1630s, when speculators drove the price of tulips to unprecedented heights, only to have the market suddenly collapse. To control the supply, the government ordered the destruc...

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Aimé Morot [the artist's son-in-law], Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [the drawing was once part of a notebook in his possession, later dismembered]; Dr. Edward T. Wilson, Bethesda, Maryland [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2008, by gift.
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