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Cupid and Psyche

c. 1600

Jan Muller

(Dutch, 1571–1628)

after Bartholomaeus Spranger

(Flemish, 1546–1611)
Culture
Netherlands, early 17th Century
Medium
engraving
Support
Laid paper
Measurements
Platemark: 38.5 x 52.5 cm (15 3/16 x 20 11/16 in.); Sheet: 39.9 x 53.7 cm (15 11/16 x 21 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1998.7
Catalogue raisonné
Hollstein XIV.107.51, state I/II; Bartsch 70; Kok (print Quarterly, March 1995) 70, state II/IV
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Müller adopted Goltzius's engraving style of a dense network of swelling and tapering lines. He sometimes made prints after works by Bartholomeus Spranger (1546-c. 1611), another exponent of the Mannerist style and court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1612) in Prague.
A horizontally oriented engraving in black-inked fine lines depicts people with light skin tones. At center, nude Psyche reclines on a cushioned bed beneath a draped canopy. To her right, Cupid, a nude winged man, gazes toward her. Three winged children scatter around the scene: one pulls the canopy back, another holds a vessel at the left, and a third follows Cupid. Latin text lines the bottom edge.

Cupid and Psyche

c. 1600

Jan Muller, Bartholomaeus Spranger

(Dutch, 1571–1628), (Flemish, 1546–1611)
Netherlands, early 17th Century

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