The story of Cupid and Psyche: Cupid flies to Jupiter who embraces him and commands Mercury to call a council of the gods. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.9 x 23.3 cm

Et volato in cielo, al gran tonante ... & chiama tutti i dei à concistoro. Bears numbers: 29 (shaded) and 29 (in clear)

['Raphael invenit' state a].

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. 67.29, p. 223

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 256, no. 29a and p. 823

Wellcome Collection 2952298i

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