The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche in the underworld receives from Proserpine a jar filled with beauty for Venus. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 20.5 x 23.6 cm

Addormentato il can con la polenta ... Che piena, e chiuso tosto se le rende Bears numbers: 27 (shaded) and 26 (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. 65.27, p. 222

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 256, no. 27c and p. 822

Wellcome Collection 2945248i

The twenty-seventh in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche