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Antonio Salamanca|Master of the Die|Michiel Coxie

Plate 8: Psyche seated at a table attended by invisible servants, as Cupid rests his head on her shoulder, at right four men standing singing from an open book, one playing a lute, 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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