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-.
- Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.
- Date:
- [between 1500 and 1599]
- Reference:
- 2944967i
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About this work
Publication/Creation
[Rome] : Ant. Sal. exc, [between 1500 and 1599]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.9 x 22.8 cm
Lettering
Indi meschiate varie biade, & poi ... Ch' opra sia stata quella di formica.
Bears numbers: 22 (shaded) and 21 (in clear)
Edition
['Raphael invenit' state c].
Creator/production credits
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)
References note
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. 22c and p. 822
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2944967i
Notes
The twenty-second in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche
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Location Status Access Closed stores