Brown engraving of three women in a draped interior, one standing and bending toward two seated figures, with a winged pair in clouds and a landscape at right.

Psyche's Sisters Persuade Her a Serpent Sleeps Beside Her

An engraving in warm brown ink shows three women in a draped classical interior: two seated figures lean together at left while a standing woman bends toward them beside a column. At upper right, a winged pair rides a cloud above a distant landscape, and Italian verse runs along the bottom margin.

Artist: Master of the Die
Date: 1530/40
Medium: Engraving in warm brown ink on light brown laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1429 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1540).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Stanley Field, Everett D. Graff, and John H. Wrenn Memorial Endowments

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