The story of Cupid and Psyche: Cupid flies to the top of a tree; Psyche clutches her head in despair; she is comforted by Pan. 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 x 23.6 cm

Ma poi che non si puote piu tenére ... Le da speranza anchor di miglior sorte. Bears numbers: 14 (shaded) and 13 (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. 52.14, pp. 217-218

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 253, no. 14c and p. 821

Wellcome Collection 2944540i

The fourteenth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche