Axial Commons Image Treasury
Engraved print of a sleeping nude woman with one arm above her head beneath a tree, with a winged child asleep at her feet and a landscape behind.

Sleeping Venus and Cupid

An engraving shows a reclining nude woman asleep beneath a large tree, one arm raised above her head, draped in cloth over a rocky ground. A small winged Cupid lies against her legs at lower left, while a hazy landscape with hills opens to the left. Latin verses and a printed inscription run along the bottom margin.

Artist
Theodor Galle
Date
ca. 1600-1610
Medium
Engraving on paper
Source
Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size
2530 × 3181 px
Download full size
Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1615).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Español: Venus dormida y Cupido

Un grabado muestra a una mujer desnuda recostada y dormida bajo un gran árbol, con un brazo levantado sobre la cabeza y una tela extendida sobre el suelo. En la esquina inferior izquierda, un Cupido alado y pequeño descansa junto a sus piernas, y al fondo se abre un paisaje con colinas. Una inscripción en latín recorre el margen inferior.

Português: Vênus adormecida e Cupido

Uma gravura mostra uma mulher nua reclinada e adormecida sob uma grande árvore, com um braço erguido acima da cabeça e um tecido estendido sobre o chão rochoso. No canto inferior esquerdo, um pequeno Cupido alado repousa junto às suas pernas, e ao fundo se abre uma paisagem com colinas. Uma inscrição em latim percorre a margem inferior.

More from Greek and Roman Myths

White plaster sculpture of a female head in profile with hair in a low knot and a band across the crown, against a dark background.Diana (fragment)Engraving of a nude muscular man in an arched niche holding a forked staff, with a multi-headed dog crouching at his feet and a Latin inscription below.Goden en GodinnenEngraving of bearded Jupiter seated on clouds with an eagle at his side, a Latin inscription along the bottom edge.Goden en GodinnenEngraving of a muscular hero raising a club over a rowboat as a sea monster rises in churning waves, with a seated woman on rocks at right.Hercules rescuing Hesione from a sea-monster. Engraving by B. Picart after C. Le Brun.Lunette painting of haloed figures in robes and a nude figure processing through a colonnaded hall with a coffered ceiling, in ochre and gold tones.Psyche entering the Portals of OlympusPainting of nude women bathing in a forest stream, with a clothed man gesturing at left and dark trees overhead.Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto