The story of Cupid and Psyche: Venus commands Psyche to bring wool from golden sheep on the far side of a river. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

  • Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.
Date:
[between 1500 and 1599]
Reference:
2950106i
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About this work

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 20.3 x 23.2 cm

Lettering

Oltra quel fiume, à quel gran bosco ombroso ... Così l'oro coglie ella ài spin lasciato. Bears numbers: 23 (shaded) and 23 (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. 61.23, pp. 220-221
G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 255, no. 23a and p. 822

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2950106i

Notes

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

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