Venus and Cupid is an oil painting on panel of c. 1533 by Pontormo, from a lost drawing or cartoon by Michelangelo, in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence.

[1] A preparatory study is in the British Museum and a copy by Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio is in the Palazzo Colonna in Rome.

Other copies are in the Royal Collection at Kensington Palace, in Hildesheim, a small version in Geneva attributed to Michele Tosini and two in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples (one attributed to Hendrick van den Broeck and the other an anonymous drawing).

[3] The painting was owned by Alessandro de' Medici and early in its life it was censored to cover Venus's nudity, as was the Rome copy.

It was recorded in inventories of the Guardaroba medicea in 1553 and 1560 and was praised by Benedetto Varchi, who wrote that it made men fall in love with it "as with Praxiteles's Venus".