The story of Cupid and Psyche: Venus and Cupid before Jupiter and the council of the gods: Jupiter declares that Cupid must marry Psyche, who is brought by Mercury into their presence. Engraving after the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

[Italy?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1500 and 1599]

1 print : engraving ; image and lettering 19 x 22.3 cm

Ecco Giove espolor, come cupido ... Per che vener si placa, & rasserena Bears no numbers. The Italian verses are engraved in narrower letters than in the Master of the Die versions, with minuscules used for the initials of proper names (giove, cupido, mercurio, psiche)

One in a series of prints after drawings attributed when first published to Raphael, but attributed by Vasari to Michiel Coxie. The engravings in the series were engraved by the Master of the Die and Agostino Veneziano. The present print appears to be copied and printed in reverse from the thirtieth and penultimate in that series. It does not seem to be by any of the engravers (mentioned in 'Raphael invenit' p. 257) who made copies after the Master of the Die engravings (G. Androuet Du Cerceau, Leonard Gaultier, or Frans Hogenberg)

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, no. 68.30, p. 223 (version engraved by the Master of the Die)

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 256, no. 30c and p. 823 (version engraved by the Master of the Die)

Wellcome Collection 2948620i

The thirtieth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche