The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche shines a lamp on her husband and discovers that he is Cupid: he flees through the window. Engraving by Agostino Veneziano, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.9 x 23.5 cm

Vedila quì col ferro, e 'l lume ardente ... fugge volando et ella a un pie s'appiglia. A.V. Bears numbers: 13 (shaded) and 13 (in clear)

['Raphael invenit' state b].

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. to the left of the bed

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, no. 51.13, p. 217

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 253, no. 13b and p. 821

Wellcome Collection 2945589i

The thirteenth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche