A young woman lies naked on a bed covered with white sheets, a bunch of roses in one hand, her gaze meeting ours. A small dog sleeps curled at her feet. Behind her, in a room with a green curtain and an open window, two maids kneel at a chest, taking out clothes. Titian painted it in 1538, and Duke Guidobaldo II della Rovere of Urbino bought it directly from him; in his letters the duke called it only a nude woman, and the name Venus comes from Giorgio Vasari.

The Uffizi reads her as a young bride about to be dressed, the dog as a sign of marital fidelity, and the myrtle on the windowsill, a plant linked to Venus, as an emblem of love. The painting came to Florence in the dowry of Vittoria della Rovere, who married Grand Duke Ferdinando II de' Medici. After it was placed in the Uffizi's Tribuna in 1736, it was hidden from visitors by a cover painted with Sacred Love. Édouard Manet's Olympia, now in the Orsay, drew on Titian, among other painters.

It is in the Uffizi in Florence.