The story of Cupid and Psyche: the wedding feast of Cupid and Psyche, with Jupiter, Venus and other gods. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.7 x 23.7 cm

Fansi le nozze splendide, & reali... spargon l'Hora / Fioretti intorno di soave odore. Bears numbers: 31 (shaded) and 30 (in clear)

[State not in 'Raphael invenit'].

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. 69.31, p. 223

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 256, no. 31 and p. 823

Wellcome Collection 2945252i

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