Venus and Cupid is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[1] Venus, lying on the ground and leaning on an elbow on a blue cloth, is accompanied by her son Cupid standing with his bow and quiver.

[1] The painting is Lotto's typically individual contribution to the emerging Venetian tradition of the reclining nude, begun by the Dresden Venus by Giorgione and Titian.

Lotto painted Venus and Cupid while taking residence in Bergamo, settling there for a decade of his life to produce some of his most famous works including his San Bernardino Altarpiece.

It was bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in July 1986 for $3 million (equivalent to $8,338,798 in 2023) funded by Jayne Wrightsman in memory of Marietta Peabody Tree.