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After Master of the Die (active 1530 -1560), printmaker
FrancescoVillamena (c. 1564 - 1624), printmaker
After Michiel Coxcie (1499 - 1592), designer
Antonio Salamanca (1478 - 1562), publisher
Object name:print
Venus and Cupid pleading their cause in the presence of Jupiter and other gods
Series title: The Fable of Psyche
engraving, 1531 - 1532
Published in
198 x 225 mm Sheet
Reference:
Bartsch XV.223.68 (ii)
Inscriptions:
Ecco Giove [
Provenance:
Francis Douce (L.689) (on verso)
Bodleian Library
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.; WA1863.5282
Comment:
Plate thirty in a series depicting the Fable of Psyche from Apuleius's 'Golden Ass'; according to Bartsch, this is second stateretouched by Francesco Villamena. For a discussion of the series, see Massari, S., Prosperi Valenti Rondin
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