Venus Blindfolding Cupid is a c.1565 painting by Titian . It is oil on canvas painting with 116 x 184 cm dimensions, located in the Room XX of the Borghese Gallery in Rome.

Attended by two female figures, one of whom is holding a bow, the other a quiver with arrows, Venus is winding a ribbon round Cupid’s head. Behind her another Cupid is watching the scene, which, beyond the window, opens onto a vast mountainous landscape.

At some point after the painting’s completion, its right side was cut away. The disembodied arm within the upper right corner gives a clue of what was delineated there. In addition, the composition corresponds closely to the left side of Titian’s Venus Blindfolding Cupid within the Galleria Borghese, Rome. In the right side of that portray, two nymphs incline in toward Venus and the cupids. An x-radiograph of the Borghese picture has uncovered that it was initially aiming to have a third figure, between the Venus group on the left and the nymphs on the right. The posture of that central figure (afterward eliminated by the artist in the Borghese adaptation) corresponds closely to that of the fragmentary figure protected in the Gallery’s picture.