The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche arrives at the palace of Venus, who has her flogged by her servants, Anxiety and Grief. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 20.4 x 23 cm

In questo, per trovar l'alato amante ... & grattasi l'orecchia per molta ira. Bears numbers: 21 (shaded) and 21 (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. 59.21, p. 220

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 254, no. 21a and p. 822

Wellcome Collection 2950104i

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