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Antonio Salamanca|Master of the Die|Michiel Coxie

Plate 28: Psyche, wanting to appear more beautiful opens the box, as Cupid arrives in the upper right, and at left his arrow pierces Psyche, who has fallen to the ground, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

1530–60
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26 × 40.2 cm (10.2 × 15.8 in)

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