# Sleeping Beauty

- By: Frans Stracké (Dorsten, 1820–1898)
- Date: 1867
- Medium: marble (rock)
- Classification: sculpture
- Dimensions: height 70 cm x width 57 cm x depth 39 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-2016-2--2a164615f6d0b682f7a2965377dfeb56)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/KCMac/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.