The story of Cupid and Psyche: the old woman who keeps house for a troup of bandits tells Charite and Lucius (in the form of an ass) the story of Cupid and Psyche. Engraving by the Master of the Die, ca. 154-, after M. Coxie, 153-.

  • Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.
Date:
[between 1600 and 1699]
Reference:
2940386i
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About this work

Description

Set outside the bandits' cave. The old woman is spinning thread on a distaff. Left, an obelisk

Publication/Creation

[Rome] : [de Rossi] sup. lic, [between 1600 and 1699]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.8 x 23.2 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Narra Apuleo, che mentr'egli cangiato / In asino ... con grata favella / Le racconta di Psiche la novella. Bears number: 1

Edition

[State with "Ant. Sal. exc." crossed through on the plate; 'Raphael invenit' state d].

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. 39.1, pp. 212-213
G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 250, no. 1d, and p. 820

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2940386i

Notes

The first in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche

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