The story of Cupid and Psyche: inside the palace, Psyche, shown five times, is undressed, bathed, anointed, dried and laid to bed by invisible nymphs. Engraving by Agostino Veneziano, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

  • Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.
Date:
[between 1500 and 1599]
Reference:
2949024i
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Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.7 x 23.4 cm

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Lettering

Fa la fanciulla quel che detto l'hanno ... Ne le morbide piume a ristorarsi. Bears numbers: 7 (shaded) and 7 (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 initials A.V. on the step to the bedroom, right

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, no. 45.7, pp. 214-215
G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, pp. 251-252, no. 7a, and p. 820

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2949024i

Notes

The seventh in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche

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