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The Garden Court

The Garden Court

1870–75
(British, 1833–1898)
England, 19th century
graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache
Sheet: 32.3 x 60.2 cm (12 11/16 x 23 11/16 in.)
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1994.197
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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.

Description

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.
  • ?-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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    Cartwright, Julia. The Life and Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones Bart. London: Art Journal, 1894. Mentioned: p. 24-5 hdl.handle.net
    Exhibition of Drawings and Studies by Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Exh. Cat. London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1899. Mentioned: pp. xv, 18, no. 88 hdl.handle.net
    Bell, Malcolm. Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review. London: 1903 Reproduced: opposite p. 66 hdl.handle.net
    De Lisle, Fortunée. Burne-Jones. London: Methuen, 1907. Mentioned: p. 183, n. 1; Reproduced: opposite p. 139 hdl.handle.net
    Hartnoll, Julian and Christopher Wood. English Romantic Art 1840-1920, Pre-Raphaelites, Academics, Symbolistes: Drawings, Watercolours, Graphics and Paintings. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery Associates, 1994. Mentioned: no. 29
    Wildman, Stephen. Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England. Exh. Cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1995. Mentioned: pp. 325-6, under no. 115
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection,” February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Wildman, Stephen and John Christian. Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer. Exh. Cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. Mentioned: pp. 157-8, n. 1
    DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: pp. 11, 197-8, 295, no. 81; Reproduced: p. 198
    Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. Mentioned: pp. 122-5, 144, no. 41; Reproduced: pp. 123-5
    Cheney, Liana de Girolami. Edward Burne-Jones on Nature: Physical and Metaphysical Realms. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. Mentioned: P. 213; Reproduced: Pl. LIX
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    Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 31-July 16, 1995).
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