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Antonio Salamanca|Master of the Die|Michiel Coxie

Plate 29: Cupid begging Jupiter to have mercy on Psyche with Mercury at left, 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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