When you visit Two Frans Hals Museums you would expect your painting of the day would be by Frans Hals. Nope, my favourite was Satire on Tulip Mania by Jan Brueghel the Younger 1640. Now, to be fair, they are both considered Dutch Masters.
As the story goes, when tulips were introduced to the Netherlands around 1593 the Dutch went WILD. Rumour has it that at the height of their popularity tulips sold for approximately 10,000 guilders, equal to the value of a mansion on the Amsterdam Grand Canal. Around 1637, when the greedy tulip sellers were the greediest, the price of tulips dropped. Disaster! It makes sense that Bruegel made fun of the tulip buyers and sellers in 1640. He even painted them as monkeys! Let’s see if you can find some of the characters he painted in his story.
I’m sure this painting has many more stories to tell. For the art lovers, there will be more galleries to come. You are Always in My Prayers. Love Mom.
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Npe D
4/16/2024 11:35:39 am
What is your favorite color of tulip?
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Diane
4/16/2024 12:21:44 pm
I really like all combinations of the traditional yellow, red and white.
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NPW Group C
4/16/2024 11:35:44 am
Why did they use Monkeys?
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Diane
4/16/2024 12:22:50 pm
He was making fun of them so I think monkeys was a good choice.
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Tyler
4/16/2024 11:37:25 am
Do you know why tuliips were introduced and from where?
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Diane
4/16/2024 12:25:37 pm
I always heard they came from Turkey, but here they say they came to the Netherlands from Turkey, but that Persia had them first.
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NPW E
4/16/2024 11:38:19 am
What type of monkeys
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Diane
4/16/2024 12:30:02 pm
Hard to tell what type,of Monkey. Possibly partly his imagination.
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NPW D
4/16/2024 11:39:41 am
Does the artist have any other famous paintings?
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Diane
4/16/2024 12:38:33 pm
His father was more famous and the younger was known to make copies of his father’s work. So although you will find paintings by the younger on line try googling Peter Bruggel the Elder—there you will find some fabulous stuff.
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NPW A
4/16/2024 11:40:16 am
Why is there monkeys in the picture?
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Ray
4/16/2024 12:34:27 pm
At that time monkeys were thought of as a symbol of a stupid animal. He was really making fun of the people who took part in the tulip bubble.
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HLoE
4/16/2024 11:48:55 am
Why do you think the painting was set in a forest?
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Ray
4/16/2024 12:30:22 pm
The trees and the edge of the building remind me of some of the mansions we biked by the other day. I think Jan wanted you to think of the very rich people who got caught up in the bubble.
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NPW B
4/18/2024 07:57:03 am
Who painted the painting?
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Ray
4/20/2024 10:39:46 am
We saw the painting at the Frans Hals Museums but it was painted by Jan Brueghel the Younger. His Dad was Jan Brueghel the Elder, and was also a painter..
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