Corregio-Venus and Cupid with a Satyr

It depicts 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.

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 Gonzaga