The Tulip Folly

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1882, Walters Art Museum

‘The Tulip Folly’ is a work by Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824–1904). It is dated 1882. It is part of the collection Walters Art Museum. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

It is made of oil paint and canvas. It measures 65 × 100 cm. The work belongs to the genre allegory. The things depicted include tulip, sword, tulip mania, and man.