Venus with Cupid the Honey Thief was painted at least in fifteen versions by Cranach. Although Dürer was also aware of the subject, its circulation in the form of a panel painting became a speciality of the Cranach workshop.

In a few cases Cranach featured Venus as a single figure. The small painting in Frankfurt is perhaps the most exquisite of Cranach's depictions of Venus, it inspired many artists even in the twentieth century.

Of all secular subjects he treated, Cranach painted the suicide of Lucretia the most frequently, in almost 40 versions. At first he showed her only rarely as a pure nude, either half- or full-length, usually, as the daughter of a Roman nobleman, she appeared in a magnificent costume. However, after about twenty years, he increasingly favoured the nude version.

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	Venus and Cupid 1509 Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 213 x 102 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg	925*2000 True Color 172 Kb
	Venus and Cupid c. 1520 Wood University Art Museum, Princeton	800*2123 True Color 138 Kb
	Venus and Cupid 1525 Oil on panel, 39 x 26 cm Private collection	566*900 True Color 56 Kb
	Venus and Cupid 1525-27 Oil on beech panel, diameter 12 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	1442*1500 True Color 247 Kb
	Cupid Complaining to Venus 1526-27 Oil on wood, 81 x 55 cm National Gallery, London	780*1123 True Color 190 Kb
	Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey 1529 Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 39 x 25 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	1000*1571 True Color 168 Kb
	Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey 1530 Oil on panel, 58 x 38 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen	1002*1500 True Color 212 Kb
	Venus Standing in a Landscape 1529 Oil on wood, 38 x 25 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	900*1398 True Color 216 Kb
	Venus Standing in a Landscape (detail) 1529 Oil on wood Musée du Louvre, Paris	630*1316 True Color 188 Kb
	Venus Standing in a Landscape (detail) 1529 Oil on wood Musée du Louvre, Paris	522*870 True Color 77 Kb
	Venus and Cupid c. 1530 Linden panel, 167 x 62 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin	638*1800 True Color 106 Kb
	Venus and Cupid 1531 Oil on canvas, 176 x 80 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels	603*1345 True Color 93 Kb
	Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb c. 1531 Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 169 x 67 cm Galleria Borghese, Rome	800*1960 True Color 156 Kb
	Venus with Cupid (fragment) c. 1530 Oil on wood, 90 x 47 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna	702*1600 True Color 94 Kb
	Venus 1532 Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 38 x 25 cm Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt	1012*1600 True Color 165 Kb
	Venus (detail) 1532 Oil and tempera on red beechwood Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt	1000*1359 True Color 156 Kb
	Venus 1531 Oil on panel, 39 x 25 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna	812*1296 True Color 124 Kb
	Lucretia 1525-30 Oil and tempera on limewood, 42 x 28 cm Staatliche Museen, Kassel	1000*1427 True Color 164 Kb
	Lucretia 1510-13 Oil on limewood panel, 60 x 47 cm Private collection	630*800 True Color 45 Kb
	Lucretia c. 1524 Lime panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich	360*1000 True Color 62 Kb
	Lucretia 1532 Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 38 x 25 cm Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna	1144*1700 True Color 140 Kb
	Lucretia 1533 Red beechwood panel, 37 x 24 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin	850*1387 True Color 91 Kb