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{{Short description|Painting by Antonio da Correggio}}
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{{Infobox artwork
| image_file=Vénus et l'Amour découverts par un satyre, Corrège (Louvre INV 42) 02.jpg
| title=Venus and Cupid with a Satyr
| artist=[[Antonio da Correggio]]
| year=c. 1528
| medium=Oil on canvas
| height_metric=188.5
| width_metric=125.5
| metric_unit=cm
| imperial_unit=in
| museum=Musée du Louvre
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'''''Venus and Cupid with a Satyr''''' (around 1524-1527) is a painting by the Italian [[High Renaissance]] artist [[Antonio da Correggio]]. It is now in the [[Musée du Louvre]] in Paris.<ref>{{cite web 
|url=https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010062407
| title=Vénus, Satyre et l'Amour endormi - Louvre Collections
| trans-title=Venus, Satyr and Sleeping Cupid
| author=<!--Not stated--> 
| date=2021-05-21 
| website=Louvre 
| access-date=2023-12-15 
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| archive-date=2023-12-15
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== Background ==
This painting  was in the 16th century in the private collection of count Nicholas Maffei. It is very likely that one of the members of the Maffei family has commissioned two paintings that they then arrived in the 17th century in the collection of the [[House of Gonzaga|Gonzaga family]], with whom the Maffei were relatives. In fact, the son of count Nicholas Maffei, count Frederick Maffei, married Isabel, daughter of Cardinal [[Ercole Gonzaga]].

== Description ==
The work depicts [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] sleeping with her son [[Eros (mythology)|Eros]]. Behind them, a [[satyr]] is caught while discovering the goddess. The picture is often also seen as portraying [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]] and [[Antiope (mother of Amphion)|Antiope]] as, according to mythology and [[Ovid]], Jupiter had turned himself into a satyr to rape the nymph.

The painting was probably connected to Correggio's ''[[Venus with Mercury and Cupid|Venus with Mercury and Cupid (The School of Love)]]'', now in the [[National Gallery, London|National Gallery]] of London. It, or a copy of it, can be seen in the 1628 painting of the gallery of [[Cornelis van der Geest]], by [[Willem van Haecht]].
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File:Willem van Haecht (II) - Apelles painting Campaspe - 2.jpg|''The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest'', by Haecht, shows this painting on the right wall.
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite journal |last=Fabiański |first=Marcin |year=1996 |title=Correggio's "Venus, Cupid and a 'Satyr'." Its Form and Iconography |journal=[[Artibus et Historiae]] |publisher=[[IRSA]] |volume=17 |number=33 |pages=159–173 |doi=10.2307/1483555 |jstor=1483555}}

== External links ==
* {{Base Joconde|000PE024814|Venus, Satyre et Cupidon; dit à tort Le Sommeil d'Antiope ou Jupiter et Antiope}}

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[[Category:Mythological paintings by Correggio]]
[[Category:1528 paintings]]
[[Category:Paintings in the Louvre by Italian artists]]
[[Category:Paintings of Venus]]
[[Category:Nude paintings of women]]
[[Category:Nude paintings of children]]
[[Category:Nude paintings of men]]
[[Category:Paintings of Cupid]]
[[Category:Gonzaga art collection]]

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