Netherlands/Holland: 'A Satire of Tulip Mania'. Oil on panel painting by Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601-1678), Antwerp, c. 1640s. Brueghel's satirical comment reflects the collapse of 'Tulipomania' in the 1640s. In the painting, speculators are depicted as brainless monkeys in contemporary upper-class dress. In a commentary on the economic folly of Tulipomania, one monkey urinates on the previously valuable plants, others appear in debtor's court and one is carried away to the grave.

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