Soldiers rush through striped beds of tulips while an elaborately dressed officer guards a single flowering pot. Gérôme stages the destruction of bulbs during the Dutch tulip craze as a precise historical spectacle of speculation, order, and absurdity. Sources: https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2612; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-L%C3%A9on%20G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me%20-%20The%20Tulip%20Folly%20-%20Walters%20372612.jpg (Public domain image).

Exhibition Venue

Walters Art Museum

Baltimore, United States