Musée des Monuments Français. Description des Vitraux Anciens et Modernes [...]; ornée de gravures, et notamment de celles de la Fable de Cupidon and Psyché, d'après les dessins de Raphael.

A series of 45 numbered plates reproducing a set of 44 stained-glass windows recounting episodes taken from Apuleius' 'Fable of Cupid and Psyche'. The panels are based on a series of 32 plates engraved by the Master of the Die and Agostino Veneziano after designs previously attributed to Raphael but now generally ascribed to Michiel Coxie (see RCIN 851790). Dating from 1542-44 and thought to be a work by a master from the School of Fontainebleau, the panels were originally made to decorate the Salle des Gardes at the Château of Ecouen upon the order of Anne de Montmorency. After having been dislodged during the Revolution, from 1796 the panels were housed in the Musée des Monuments Français in Paris upon the request of Alexandre Lenoir, who in 1803 included them in ‘Musée des Monuments Français. Description des Vitraux Anciens et Modernes’. The panels passed subsequently into the possession of Henri d’Orléans Duc d’Aumale (1822-1897), who towards the end of the XIX century placed them in his castle at Chantilly (which now houses the Musée Condé) where they have since remained. The greater part of the glass panels agree with the compositions of the Master of the Die and Agostino Veneziano prints; some of these have been divided in two, and a few subjects added.