Sleeping Venus (Carracci)

Sleeping Venus (also known as Sleeping Venus with Putti)^[1] is a painting created c. 1603 by the Italian artist Annibale Carracci, now in the Musée Condé in Chantilly, Oise, France.^[2] This oil painting measures 190 x 328 cm.^[3] The painting depicts Venus sleeping with her arm above her head as putti frolic around her.^[4] Carracci painted Sleeping Venus for Odoardo Farnese.^[5] Giovanni Battista Agucchi wrote an ekphrasis of this painting that Carlo Cesare Malvasia included in his book Life of the Carracci.^[6] In The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Giovanni Pietro Bellori wrote a description of the painting that paraphrases Agucchi's ekphrasis without citation.^[7]

Sleeping Venus
Artist	Annibale Carracci
Year	c. 1603 (1603)
Medium	Oil on canvas
Subject	Venus and putti
Dimensions	190 cm × 328 cm (75 in × 129 in)
Location	Musée Condé, Chantilly, Oise, France