The story of Cupid and Psyche: Cupid flies to Jupiter who embraces him and commands Mercury to call a council of the 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 19.9 x 23.3 cm

Et volato in cielo, al gran tonante ... & chiama tutti i dei à concistoro. Bears numbers: 29 (shaded) and 28 (in clear)

['Raphael invenit' state c].

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

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, no. 67.29, p. 223

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 256, no. 29c and p. 823

Wellcome Collection 2945250i

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)