The story of Cupid and Psyche: the father of Psyche, seeking a husband for her, consults the oracle of Apollo at Miletus. Engraving by A. Veneziano, 153-, after M. Coxie, 153-.

  • Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.
Date:
[between 1500 and 1599]
Reference:
2948972i
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About this work

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image and lettering 19.5 x 22.4 cm

Lettering

Per questo il ré sacrifica, & partito / Chiede al milesio dio per la figliuola ... Distrugge 'l mondo, et mai non trova loco. Bears numbers: 4 (shaded) and 4 (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 Agostino Veneziano on the evidence of his device, lower right: a tablet with the letters AV

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, no. 42.4, pp. 213-214
G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 251, no. 4a, and p. 820

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2948972i

Notes

The fourth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche

Type/Technique

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Where to find it

  • no. 4 ("4")

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