Sleeping Beauty
Also titled Doornroosje
Frans Stracké (Dorsten, 1820–1898)
1867
- Medium
- marble (rock)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 70 cm x width 57 cm x depth 39 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Few Dutch sculptors risked depicting romantic themes in the 19th century. Stracké’s Sleeping Beauty is, therefore, quite exceptional. He captured the fairy-tale princess in her deep, 100-year sleep, after she had pricked her finger on an enchanted spindle. She is rendered so realistically that the statue seems alive, as if she could awaken any moment.
