The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche puts in order a store of agricultural equipment, sacred to Ceres, but Ceres refuses to help her to find Cupid. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.
- Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.
- Date:
- [between 1500 and 1599]
- Reference:
- 2944964i
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About this work
Publication/Creation
[Rome] : Ant. Sal. exc, [between 1500 and 1599]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.9 x 23 cm
Lettering
Psiche cercando del marito l'orme ... Quivi lo star , sì, ch' invan parla, e priega
Bears numbers: 19 (shaded) and 18 (in clear)
Edition
['Raphael invenit' state c].
Creator/production credits
One in a series of prints after drawings attributed when first published to Raphael, but attributed by Vasari to Michiel Coxie. The engraving is attributed to the Master of the Die on the evidence of his monogram on the earliest state of two of the plates (nos. 6 and 9)
References note
Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, no. 57.19, p. 219
G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 254, no. 19c and p. 822
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2944964i
Notes
The nineteenth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche
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Location Status Access Closed stores