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| Keywords: Jean-Léon Gérôme - Dutch Cavalier - Walters 372763.jpg This drawing of a Dutch aristocrat valiantly defending a lone potted tulip is derived from Gérôme's painting The Tulip Folly of 1882 Walters 37 2612 As it was reproduced by means of photoengraving and widely distributed the painting was well known to the public Discerning collectors would not be content to have a mechanical reproduction of an original work but might ask the artist for reductions variations or as in this case an excerpt of a figure or group of figures from the original work The sale of such drawings was a common marketing strategy among artists throughout the 19th century and Gérôme was a master of it after 1882 graphite on smooth moderately thick cream wove paper cm 36 23 5 accession number 37 2763 3623 Galerie Mazarini Lyon Walters Art Museum May 2001 by purchase Museum purchase 2001 JL Gerome in graphite below center and right recto slightlyy smudged; 39ff in graphite lower left verso; label Goupil Comp at upper center of mount The Essence of Line place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D The Essence of Line Drawings by Jean-Léon Gérôme Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Drawings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
