The Sleeping Beauty
Artist
Edward Coley Burne-Jones
(British, 1833 - 1898)
Date1871-1873
Object number59.0114
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions23 1/2 × 44 3/4 in. (59.7 × 113.7 cm)
frame: 33 7/8 × 54 7/8 × 2 1/4 in. (86 × 139.4 × 5.7 cm)
frame: 33 7/8 × 54 7/8 × 2 1/4 in. (86 × 139.4 × 5.7 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
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On View
Not on viewDescriptionThe Sleeping Beauty, dressed in white, lies on a draped couch with three of her ladies asleep on the petal-covered floor. The figure on the right holds a lyre with broken strings. When asked why he had not shown Sleeping Beauty awakening, Burne-Jones replied, “I want it to stop with the princess asleep and tell no more, to leave all the afterwards to the invention and imagination of people.”
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