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

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

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