The story of Cupid and Psyche: the jealous sisters of Psyche call her husband a reptile and urge her to cut off his head. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [between 1500 and 1599]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 20 x 23.4 cm

L'invidiose del gran ben di Psiche ... Giurando essere un serpe velenoso. Bears numbers: 12 (shaded) and 12 (in clear)

['Raphael invenit' state a].

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. 50.12, pp. 216-217

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 252, no. 12a and p. 821

Wellcome Collection 2949031i

The twelfth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche