
Frans Stracké1820–1898Peut-on la contempler ?
Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Le propriétaire est connu ; on ignore si l’œuvre est exposée aujourd’hui.
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.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam