Venus and Cupid

Artist Agostino de Musi, called Agostino Veneziano (Italian, 1490 - 1540)

Artist After Raphael (Italian, 1483 - 1520)

Date1516

MediumEngraving

DimensionsPlate: 7 x 5 3/16 inches (17.78 x 13.18 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-209/10

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This print forms part of a series devoted to the adventures of Psyche, the beautiful princess who fell in love with Cupid, the son of Venus. Musi's prints are copied after a series of frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael (1483-1520) in the Vatican, Rome. The style of the frescoes is derived from antique Roman paintings in the Golden House of Nero, but in the print, the landscape background is adapted from the work of the great German master Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528).

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