Venus with Cupid the Honey Thief, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop (German, 1472–1553), 1530, Inscribed: [As Cupid was stealing honey from the hive / A bee stung the thief on the finger / And so do we seek transitory and dangerous pleasures / That are mixed with sadness and bring us pain], The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted on 19 January 2012