The Garden Court
1870–75
Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833–1898)
Drawings
The Garden Court, 1870–75. Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833–1898). Graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache; sheet: 32.3 x 60.2 cm (12 11/16 x 23 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1994.197 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Burne-Jones, Edward
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache
- Medium
- graphite, watercolor, heightened, white, gouache
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 32.3 x 60.2 cm (12 11/16 x 23 11/16 in.)
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1994.197
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- English Romantic Art 1840-1920. Pre-Raphaelites, Academics, Symbolistes: Drawings, Watercolours, Graphics, and Paintings, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art , Imagining the Garden, <em>Exhibition of Drawings and Studies by Sir Edward Burne-Jones Bart. </em>Burlington Fine Arts Club, London (1899).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
Have a concern, a correction, or something to add?
