The story of Cupid and Psyche: inside the palace, Psyche, accompanied by Cupid, enjoys a banquet in the presence of invisible musicians and singers. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.7 x 23.2 cm

Indi a poco levata, & rivestita ... Un è di piu voci un grato , & bel concento. Bears numbers: 8 (shaded) and 8 (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. 46.8, pp. 215-216

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 252, no. 8c, and p. 820

Wellcome Collection 2940397i

The eighth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche