Sleeping Venus Surprised by Satyrs

Poetic-erotic satyr subject. Quickly and confidently painted Titianesque picture from Poussin's early years in Rome, with which several drawings are connected. A somewhat later version of the Zurich painting is in the National Gallery in London; old copies are also known. A reference to the thematically related painting 'Sleeping Venus with Cupid' in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden should not be missing here.