The story of Cupid and Psyche: Cupid and Psyche making love on a bed in Cupid's palace. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.6 x 23 cm

Poi che fù per dormir nel ricco letto O felice, ó gentil coppia amorosa. Bears numbers: 9 (shaded) and 9 (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. 47.9, p. 216

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 252, no. 9, and p. 820

Wellcome Collection 2949026i

The ninth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche