The story of Cupid and Psyche: Venus goes to Cupid's bedroom and reproaches him; left, she complains about him to Juno and Ceres. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 20.1 x 23.2 cm

La dea tornata con gran villania ... Duolsi di questo, e 'l loro aiuo chere. Bears numbers: 17 (shaded) and 17 changed to 16 (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 (nos. 6 and 9)

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, no. 55.17, pp. 218-219

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, pp. 253-254, no. 17c and p. 821

Wellcome Collection 2944546i

The seventeenth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche