The story of Cupid and Psyche: Cupid flies out of his bedroom, revives Psyche, and shuts the cloud of sleep in the jar filled by Proserpine. 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 22.9 cm

Dato a Cerbero Psiche l'altro pane ... A la madre, le mpon con quella nebbia. Bears numbers: 28 (shaded) and 27 (in clear)

['Raphael invenit' state c].

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. 66.28, pp. 222-223

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 256, no. 28c and p. 823

Wellcome Collection 2945249i

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