Venus and Adonis is a painting by the Italian late Mannerist artist Paolo Veronese, executed in the early 1580s, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid.

This added section was removed in a restoration in 1988, so the work recovered its original horizontal format.

[2] The pendant Cephalus and Procris belonged to the Spanish royal collection from 1641, when Diego Velázquez bought it in Venice, until at least 1809.

It was sold several times after his death and finally bought for the Strasbourg museum by Wilhelm von Bode in Berlin in 1912.

[4] After this burnt down in 1734, it is recorded in different rooms in the New Royal Palace of Madrid (on the same site) between 1772 and 1818, before most of the collection was transferred to the Prado.