Focus on Venus and Cupid with a Satyr and explain the Description.
The work depicts Venus sleeping with her son Eros. Behind them, a satyr is caught while discovering the goddess. The picture is often also seen as portraying Jupiter and 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 (The School of Love), now in the 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.
Eros Jupiter Cornelis van der Geest Ovid satyr Venus with Mercury and Cupid (The School of Love) Willem van Haecht Venus Antiope National Gallery Venus with Mercury and Cupid