The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche stays at home unhappily after her sisters have left to marry kings. Engraving by the Master of the Die, ca. 154-, after M. Coxie, 153-.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.9 x 23.3 cm

Già da dui re le sorelle maggiori ... In matrimonio dimandarla ardiva. Bears numbers: 2 (shaded) and 3 (in clear)

['Raphael invenit' state c, with "tmprata" instead of "t'amprata" in the lettering].

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. 41.3, p. 213

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, pp. 250-251, no. 3c, and p. 820

Wellcome Collection 2940388i

The third in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche