The story of Cupid and Psyche: Venus and Cupid before Jupiter and the council of the gods: Jupiter declares that Cupid must marry Psyche, who is brought by Mercury into their presence. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

  • Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.
Date:
[between 1500 and 1599]
Reference:
2952299i
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Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 20 x 23.1 cm

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Lettering

Ecco Giove espòlor, come Cupido ... Perche Vener si placa, & rasserena. Bears numbers: 30 (shaded) and 30 (in clear)

Edition

['Raphael invenit' state a].

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. 68.30, p. 223
G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 256, no. 30a and p. 823

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2952299i

Notes

The thirtieth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche

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