Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011010About the Artwork
The story of Briar Rose (known popularly as "Sleeping Beauty") occupied Edward Burne-Jones on and off for much of his career. He completed three related sets of paintings of the subject over a 30-year period. This drawing probably relates to the first series, now in the Museo de Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Here, vines twist in arabesques against a flat, chartreuse background, as though ensnaring the six servants asleep at a loom and well.
Provenance
?-by 1914: Charles Edward Hallé [1846-1914], London 1926: (sale, Sotheby's, London, November 26, 1926, no. 22) 1993: (sale, Christie's, London, June 11, 1993, no. 93) probably 1993-1994: (J. S. Maas and Son, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) 1994-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
English Romantic Art 1840-1920. Pre-Raphaelites, Academics, Symbolistes: Drawings, Watercolours, Graphics, and Paintings. Shepherd Gallery, New York, NY (October 5-November 9, 1994). Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 31-July 16, 1995). Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013). Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016). Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 4-September 8, 2024).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833–1898)
- Date
- 1870–75
- Medium
- graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache
- Dimensions
- Matted: 54.3 x 81.4 x 0.8 cm (21 3/8 x 32 1/16 x 5/16 in.); Frame: 61.3 x 88.9 x 3.2 cm (24 1/8 x 35 x 1 1/4 in.); Image: 32.3 x 60.2 cm (12 11/16 x 23 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Accession no.
- 1994.197
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