Two Venetian Ladies is an oil on panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio.

Beginning in the nineteenth century, the painting began to be interpreted as depicting two courtesans, some commentators pointing to the red chopines, or platform clogs, on the left, as supposed markers of such women, while their apparent idleness, or their low décolletage, led others to that conclusion.

[1] Several objects – the white kerchief, the pearls and the animals (the doves, Venus's bird) – are symbols of chastity.

[3] Another painted panel, now in the Getty Museum,[4] was published in 1944, and it was later realized that this is part of the same work, fitting above this part: it portrays several boats in a lagoon, and would explain the meaning of the scene, as two women awaiting their husbands' return after an expedition hunting, or fishing with cormorants, in the Venetian lagoon.

[5] Another panel the same size as these two combined would have been on the left; probably the two were hinged together to make a diptych, or a folding door or shutter.