Venus is about to get social services called on her.

She's passed out on a rock. Got it all hanging out. Her kids, Cupid and...oh, let's call him Fatso, play with a set of bow and arrows in the middle of the woods while two guys watch from behind a bush and a couple nearby are about to get it on. #Parentfail. While this isn't exactly Poussin's best, most action packed, or coherent piece, it definitely leaves a lot to be discussed. For instance:

Is that a tail or shepherd's staff rising above the bush-bound creepers?
Is that tree growing grapes or alien pods just above Venus?
Follow up question, is this one of those paintings that should be on "Ancient Aliens"?

Scholars have taken a few issues with this painting that are a little more legitimate. The fact that Venus's typical dove posse is absent raises questions as to whether the passed-out ingenue is Venus at all. This painting, completed in about 1626, was from a time when Poussin was going through some artistic growing pains. He'd just moved to Rome from rural France and was hanging on by a thread. Poussin's only buddy in the entire Boot had just died. Poor Nick was broke, taking any commission he could get to stay fed and housed. He wasn't established enough to get portraits. And he just didn't have the "it" factor with religious stuff. So, as so many poor souls before him, he got sucked into the high stakes world of late Renaissance Roman pornos.

Some scholars say this part of his career was spent cribbing off Titian's mythological scenes featuring scantily-clad lady subjects. But, by and large, Poussin places the importance on ta-tas and va-jay-jays, and not so much on the mythology. In fact, most of the women in Poussin's similar selections are in nearly identical poses to this Venus. What's Poussin to do? He's got to eat, and porn's a big business. These kind of works were so prevalent that many scholars are adamant that this isn't Poussin's painting at all. Just some rando's take on a popular genre. Poor Poussin.