The story of Cupid and Psyche: Venus commands Psyche to separate a pile of mixed grains into different piles of each type of grain.. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

[Rome] : Ant. Sal. exc, [between 1500 and 1599]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.9 x 22.8 cm

Indi meschiate varie biade, & poi ... Ch' opra sia stata quella di formica. Bears numbers: 22 (shaded) and 22 (in clear)

['Raphael invenit' state b].

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)

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, no. 60.22, p. 220

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, pp. 254-255, no. 22b and p. 822

Wellcome Collection 2945724i

The twenty-second in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche