Plate 18: Venus in her dove-drawn chariot complaining to Jupiter, who is accompanied by Mercury and an eagle, at left Mercury has descended to earth, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

Plate 18: Venus in her dove-drawn chariot complaining to Jupiter, who is accompanied by Mercury and an eagle, at left Mercury has descended to earth, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius" by Antonio Salamanca|Master of the Die|Michiel Coxie (I)

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 13/16 in. (26 × 40.2 cm) Plate: 7 11/16 × 9 3/16 in. (19.5 × 23.3 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library

Accession Number

41.71.3(18)

Tags

EaglesJupiterMercuryVenus

About the Artist

Antonio Salamanca|Master of the Die|Michiel Coxie (I) ( |Italian (born Spain)) · |1478 |1562

|Salamanca 1478–1562 Rome

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