About This Artwork

Master of the Die (Italian, flourished c. 1530-c. 1560)
After Michiel Coxcie I (Flemish, 1499-1592)
in turn, under the inspiration of Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)

Proserpina Gives Psyche the Box of Beauty, 1530/40

Engraving in warm brown ink on cream laid paper
200 x 235 mm (plate, each approx.); 270 x 370 mm (sheet, each approx.)
Stanley Field, Everett D. Graff, and John H. Wrenn Memorial Endowments, 2001.493.27

Bartsch 65; Passavant 65; Ruland 27