Sleeping Venus (also known as Sleeping Venus with Putti)[1] is a c. 1603 painting by Annibale Carracci held by the Musée Condé in Chantilly, Oise, France.

[3] It 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.