The story of Cupid and Psyche: Cupid and Psyche on their nuptial bed. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 153-, after M. Coxie, 153-.

[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [between 1500 and 1599]

1 print : engraving ; image and lettering 19.3 x 22.3 cm

Dopo la cena i disiosi amanti ... che'l diletto d'Amor poscia ne nacque.Distrugge 'l mondo, et mai non trova loco. Bears numbers: 32 (shaded, indistinct) and 32 (in clear)

['Raphael invenit' state a].

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 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. 70.32, p. 224

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 257, no. 32a, and p. 823

Wellcome Collection 2948973i

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