The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche feeds a sop to Cerberus in order to gain entry to the underworld. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.8 x 22.9 cm

Poi ch'ha passata la palude morta ... Come era dala torre ammaestrata Bears numbers: 26 (shaded) and 25 (in clear)

['Raphael invenit' state c].

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. 64.26, p. 222

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 255, no. 26c and p. 822

Wellcome Collection 2945247i

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