Venus with a Satyr and Cupids

Venus with a Satyr and Two Cupids or The Bacchante (La Baccante) is an oil painting on canvas executed ca. 1588–1590 by the Italian painter Annibale Carracci, now in the Uffizi in Florence. Its dating is based on its strong Venetian influence – the artist was briefly in the city at the end of the 1580s. The work is first recorded in 1620, when the Bolognese gentleman Camillo Bolognetti sold it to an emissary from Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. It was then taken to Florence and remained in the Medici collections, displayed in the Tribuna of the Uffizi and appearing in the top left of Johann Zoffany's painting of the same name beside Guido Reni's Charity and directly above Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola. Because of its erotic charge, the painting was covered during the 18th century by another canvas and not uncovered until early in the 19th century.

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satyr, Venus, grape, Cupid