Title
Psyche opens the fatal box
circa 1530-circa 1560
Artists
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Details
- Date
- circa 1530-circa 1560
- Media category
- Materials used
- engraving
- Edition
- ii of 2 states
- Dimensions
- 19.2 x 22.7 cm image; 19.8 x 23.3 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Anonymous gift 1981
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 60.1981
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Master of the Die
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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after Raphael
Works in the collection
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About
The artist's name derives from his habit of signing prints with a small die. He may have been the son of the engraver, Marcantonio Raimondi, with whom he worked in Rome making prints after Raphael's designs. Venus set Psyche the task of going to the underworld and procuring from Proserpine some of her beauty in a box for Venus's use. Psyche was warned not to open the box, but on her way back her curiosity got the better of her and a deathly sleep enveloped her. Cupid saw this and flew to her rescue.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Piety and Paganism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jul 1991–29 Sep 1991
Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Jun 1998–20 Sep 1998
Old Europe: Prints & drawings from the collection 1500-1800, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Jun 2006–06 Aug 2006
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Nicholas Draffin, Piety and Paganism, Sydney, 1991, 8. no catalogue numbers
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Peter Raissis, Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian old master prints from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998, 8. no catalogue numbers
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