Antiope1.0005_Correggio

Antonio da Correggio, "Venus, Cupid, and a Satyr," ca. 1494-1534, Paris, Louvre, inv. 42 (1118)

This painting was once regarded as "Sleeping Antiope" or (even more erroneously) "Jupiter with Antiope".

This painting was created and exhibited by Correggio as a companion piece to "The School of Love" ErosEducation1.0001_Correggio which hangs in the National Gallery.

Langmuir on "The School of Love"":
"The animation ...imparted to the individual figures and the image [of the London painting] as a whole is evident ... Its probable companion, now in the Louvre, Paris, shows a lustful satyr uncovering Venus sleeping in sensuous abandon on the ground. She represents the 'Terrestrial Venus' of carnal passion. In the National Gallery canvas (smaller because cut down on all four sides), a winged Venus and Merucy unite in instructing Cupid ..."