The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche, commanded by Venus to visit Proserpine in the underworld, is advised by a tower not to jump off it and kill herself but instead to enter the underworld at Taenarus. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.
- Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.
- Date:
- [between 1500 and 1599]
- Reference:
- 2950107i
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About this work
Publication/Creation
[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [between 1500 and 1599]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 20.5 x 23.6 cm
Lettering
Dalle una bossola hor, che al negro inpero ... Con qua(n)to debbia fare, onde cammina
Bears numbers: 24 (shaded)
Edition
['Raphael invenit' state a, but without numeration "24" in clear].
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. 62.24, p. 221
G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 255, no. 24a and p. 822
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2950107i
Notes
The twenty-fourth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche
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Where to find it
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