Sleeping Lady with Black Vase (Hungarian: Alvó nő fekete vázával) is a 1927–1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény.

It was auctioned as a Berény in the mid-1990s and, with the artist's work valued cheaply at this time, was later sold to Sony Pictures, who used it in the 1999 film Stuart Little as set dressing in the house of the main character.

[4] Berény is likely to have painted Sleeping Lady with Black Vase in 1927 to 1928, by which time he had returned to Budapest, in his native Hungary, from Berlin where he had fled following World War I.

[1][2][5] In 1999, Hempstead recognised the painting in the film Stuart Little, in which it was used as set dressing in the background of shots inside the main character's house.

[1] Hempstead considered tracking the painting down and buying it back, knowing that prices for Berény works had increased since he had sold it.

[1] On 24 December 2009, Hungarian National Gallery researcher and art historian Gergely Barki recognised the painting whilst watching Stuart Little at home with his three-year-old daughter.

[1] Barki met the set designer in a park in Washington, D.C., and, after unscrewing the frame with a screwdriver borrowed from a hotdog vendor, was able to confirm the painting was genuine.