Jupiter and Antiope

This is Titian's largest mythological painting, and it spent centuries at the top of European power. He worked it up in the later 1530s, a sleeping nymph, Antiope, watched by Jupiter, who has taken the form of a satyr to creep up on her, while a hunt unfolds across the right half of the canvas. It came to be called the Pardo Venus, after El Pardo, the Spanish royal hunting lodge where it hung. Philip II of Spain owned it, a fire at El Pardo nearly destroyed it in 1604, and the following century it was handed to Louis XIV of France as a diplomatic gift. It has been in Paris ever since.