To the left Venus, reclining on a voluminous red cloth, gestures towards Mars, who is seated under a tree on the right, his right foot resting on his cuirass. Mars looks at Venus whilst taking a fruit from a basket held up to him by Cupid, at the lower right. In the landscape behind them a hunting party can be seen.

The picture is now in poor condition, making attribution difficult. It is of the same general type as the Venus and Cupid in a Landscape (Muzeum Narodwe, Warsaw), which is an autograph Bordone, but the clumsy invention evident in this work has led to an attribution to the workshop or studio of Bordone. Nevetherless, the painting demonstrates the kind of Bordone that influenced Francois Clouet’s paintings, such as his Bath of Diana (Rouen), and it is possible that it was painted in connection with Bordone’s French journeys (usually dated to 1538 and 1559). The deep-red drapery on which Venus reclines is clearly a recollection of Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus now at Dresden (in 1525 in Casa Marcello, Venice).