Légende
Psyche on her way to the Underworld, Story of Amor and Psyche, print, Series number, 24, 32, Venus instructs Psyche to descend into the Underworld and bring back a jar filled with the beauty of Proserpina, the queen of the Underworld. On the left, Psyche by the tower giving her advice. Italian text in two cartouches in the lower margin. Numbered lower left: 24., collector's mark: 'Hinloopen', number: '8', printmaker: Master of the Dice, Italy, after design by Michiel Coxie (I), publisher: Antonio Salamanca, Rome, c. 1530 - c. 1560, Master of the Dice, Michiel Coxie (I), Antonio Salamanca, printmaker, after design by, publisher, paper, engraving, intaglio printmaking technique, engraving with plate tone, height 200 mm x width 237 mm, A monochrome etched scene showing a landscape with rocky foreground and scattered foliage, a large tree near the center, and dense trees at the right edge. Three draped female figures stand at the right, two facing each other with one touching the other's arm and a third partially turned away, one figure wearing a cloak that reveals a bare torso. A classical urn sits on the ground near their feet. To the left, a tower with a conical roof rises behind a smaller architectural projection, and a cloaked figure stands at the tower base gesturing outward toward a distant reclining figure on a distant slope above a cluster of low buildings. A kneeling or bending figure faces the cloaked figure near the tower entrance. The sky is filled with finely hatched clouds and horizontal lines, and decorative text panels run along the bottom edge of the image.
Crédit
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Notre référence
LZT26A83_026
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
41.1Mo (6.4Mo) / 35.0cm x 29.4cm / 4128 x 3476 (300dpi)