Sleeping Beauty

English: Sleeping Beauty (La Belle au Bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood)) is a fairy tale classic, the first in the set published in 1697 by Charles Perrault, Contes de ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose Tales). There is also a later German version collected by the Brothers Grimm named Dornröschen which is as popular.

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Edward Frederick Brewtnall: Sleeping Beauty
Marie-Antoinette Petit-Jean, Sleeping beauty, 1821
Henry Meynell Rheam: Sleeping beauty
Prince Florimund finds the Sleeping Beauty
Louis Sussmann-Hellborn: Dornröschen, sleeping
Sleeping Beauty on easter egg
Taiwan Green Island Sleeping Beauty Skerry

La Belle au Bois Dormant[edit]

Gustave Dorés illustrations for Charles Perrault's La Belle au Bois Dormant were published in an 1867 edition entitled Les Contes de Perrault. Six engravings

La Belle au Bois Dormant/Sleeping Beauty 1:6
La Belle au Bois Dormant/Sleeping Beauty 2:6
La Belle au Bois Dormant/Sleeping Beauty 3:6
La Belle au Bois Dormant/Sleeping Beauty 4:6
La Belle au Bois Dormant/Sleeping Beauty 5:6
La Belle au Bois Dormant/Sleeping Beauty 6:6

The Sleeping Beauty[edit]

Original cast of Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, St Petersburg, 1890
Carlotta Brianza and Paul Gerdt in the 1890 production of the Sleeping Beauty by the Mariinsky Theatre