The story of Cupid and Psyche: at the request of Psyche, the west wind brings her sisters to her palace, and she shows them her treasure in a vase. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 20.2 x 22.4 cm

Le sorelle 'l dur caso udito havendo ... Riportar falle al dirupaio speco. Bears numbers: 11 (shaded) and 10 (in clear)

['Raphael invenit' state c].

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 (no. 6 and no. 9)

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, no. , p. 216

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 252, no. 11c and p. 821

Wellcome Collection 2940399i

The eleventh in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche