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Plate 18: Venus in her dove-drawn chariot complaining to Jupiter, who is accompanied by Mercury and an eagle, at left Mercury has descended to earth, from the Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius

This book contains 32 plates bound together, 3 of which are by Agostino Veneziano.

Credit: Rogers Fund, Transferred from the Library, 1941

1530-60
Engraving
26.0 x 40.2cm
41.71.3(18)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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