The Garden Court

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The Garden Court

Edward Burne-JonesLinkedCulture matchlcp-0b3b9e3ae87f

Date
1870–75
Medium
graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache
Culture
England, 19th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
157333

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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. Art historian Andrea Wolk Rager has interpreted this drawing as related to Edward Burne-Jones's socialist beliefs, identifying the weaver at right in the work as a personification of artistic labor, dormant in industrialized Victorian society.

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Credit line
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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

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