The Sleeping Beauty (Edward)

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The Sleeping Beauty
Edward Coley Burne-Jones, The Sleeping Beauty from the small Briar Rose series, Museo de Arte de Ponce.jpg
Artist Edward Burne-Jones
Year1871–1873
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions60 cm× 115 cm(24 in× 45 in)
Location Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico

The Sleeping Beauty is an oil-on-canvas painting by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, executed between 1871 and 1873. It is part of his Small Briar Rose series and depicts the fairy-tale moment of enchanted slumber. [1]

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Provenance and Location

The painting was completed between 1871 and 1873. It entered the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1959, supported by the John Nicholson fund. [2] [3]

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References

  1. Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham) (1871–73), The Sleeping Beauty , retrieved 2025-09-21{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. "The Sleeping Beauty - Edward Coley Burne-Jones". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2025-09-21.
  3. "Sleeping Beauty: Edward Burne-Jones's The Legend of the Briar Rose".