Maerten de Vos (1532-1603)

Maerten de Vos (1532-1603), After - The Egg Dance / Description: The Egg-Dance. Anonymous engraving from the late 16th century after a design of Maerten de Vos. Second state with the publishers addrress of Joan Galle in the bottom rigth corner. Oldcolouring. / Dimensions: 20,30 x 29,50 cm Good impression with full plate border and margins on a laid paper sheet. Flattened middle fold. Paper yellowed by age. / Literature: Bartsch XV.216.50 From a set of plates of the story of Cupid and Psyche. The series consists of 32 numbered plates, 3 by Agostino Veneziano (plates 4,7 and 13), the remainder by the Master of the Die (who only marked plates 6 and 9). Bartsch thought that the plates were designed by Raphael, but Vasari correctly stated that they were after Coxcie. Master of the Die (printmaker; Italian; 1530 - 1560; fl.) Engraver of the generation after Marcantonio in Rome, work signed with a die with the letter B. Fischel suggested that he might be identified as Tommaso Vincidor. Major series the 32 plates of the story of Cupid and Psyche (B.39-70), of which three are by Agostino Veneziano. Michiel Coxie I (printmaker; painter/draughtsman; Flemish; 1499 - 1592) Painter, glass-painter, designer of tapestries; probably pupil of Bernard van Orley. Working in Mechelen and Rome. One etching attributed to him in Hollstein. Born in Mechelen; 1530-1539 in Rome; 1539 back in Mechelen; court painter for Mary of Austria in Brussels from 1543, later for Philip II; 1563 back to Mechelen where he died (after falling from scaffolding in Antwerp). First artist to transfer Italian influence in Netherlands. Many of his paintings now in Madrid. New Hollstein Dutch 177-1(3) first state Engraving