Venus and Cupid with a Satyr

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Venus and Cupid with a Satyr

Antonio da Correggio, c. 1528

Oil on canvas

188,5 × 125,5 cm

Musée du Louvre

Venus and Cupid with a Satyr (c. 1528) is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance artist Antonio Allegri da Correggio. It is housed in the Musée du Louvre of Paris, France.

The painting was commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua. It represents the beauty of Venus sleeping with her son Eros. Behind them, a satyr is caught while discovering the goddess.

The picture was incorrectly identified as portraying Jupiter and Antiope as, according to the legend, Zeus had turned himself into a satyr to kidnap the nymph.

The painting was probably connected to the Education of Cupid, now in the National Gallery of London.