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The Sleeping Beauty
Edward Burne-Jones1871-1873
Museo de Arte de Ponce
Ponce, Puerto Rico
The 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.”
Details
- Title: The Sleeping Beauty
- Creator: Edward Coley Burne-Jones
- Date Created: 1871-1873
- Location Created: England
- Physical Dimensions: 24 × 45 1/2 in. (61 × 115.6 cm)
- Type: painting
- Rights: Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
- Medium: oil on canvas
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