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.

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	Venus and Cupid 1509 Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 213 x 102 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
	Venus and Cupid c. 1520 Wood University Art Museum, Princeton
	Venus and Cupid 1525 Oil on panel, 39 x 26 cm Private collection
	Venus and Cupid 1525-27 Oil on beech panel, diameter 12 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Cupid Complaining to Venus 1526-27 Oil on wood, 81 x 55 cm National Gallery, London
	Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey 1529 Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 39 x 25 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey 1530 Oil on panel, 58 x 38 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
	Venus Standing in a Landscape 1529 Oil on wood, 38 x 25 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Venus Standing in a Landscape (detail) 1529 Oil on wood Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Venus Standing in a Landscape (detail) 1529 Oil on wood Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Venus and Cupid c. 1530 Linden panel, 167 x 62 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	Venus and Cupid 1531 Oil on canvas, 176 x 80 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
	Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb c. 1531 Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 169 x 67 cm Galleria Borghese, Rome
	Venus with Cupid (fragment) c. 1530 Oil on wood, 90 x 47 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Venus 1532 Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 38 x 25 cm Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
	Venus (detail) 1532 Oil and tempera on red beechwood Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
	Venus 1531 Oil on panel, 39 x 25 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
	Lucretia 1525-30 Oil and tempera on limewood, 42 x 28 cm Staatliche Museen, Kassel
	Lucretia 1510-13 Oil on limewood panel, 60 x 47 cm Private collection
	Lucretia c. 1524 Lime panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich
	Lucretia 1532 Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 38 x 25 cm Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
	Lucretia 1533 Red beechwood panel, 37 x 24 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin