Bernard Van Orley (1492-5 to 1540) was trained by his father, Valentin, and afterwards studied under Raphael in Italy. He was engaged to supervise the translation of Raphael's cartoons for the famous series of the _Apostles_ into tapestry. In 1518 he became court painter. He designed many tapestries, of which the most famous are the _Hunts of Maximilian_ and the _Victory of Pavia_ series. [Sidenote: 36] FONTAINEBLEAU, MIDDLE XVI CENTURY [Sidenote: _Wool and Silk._ H. 11 _ft._ W. 17 _ft._ ] GROTESQUES: _On a red ground, grotesques, of which the principal features are: in the center Flora in an arbor on the top of which stands Atlas upholding the world; two cartouches left and two right with candelabra and various deities. Below at the left in a small oval medallion Leda and the Swan, and in the corresponding medallion on the other side Eve and the Serpent. The remaining spaces are filled with amorini, garlands of fruit and flowers, gods, and various ornaments. Narrow floral borders, and in the center of both side borders a triangle._ The triangles in the border are the Deltas, the ciphers of Diane de Poitiers, indicating that this piece was woven in the reign of Henry II for Diane, possibly for the Château d'Anet. [Sidenote: Lent by _P. W. French & Company_.] For fertile and varied imagination this piece is quite uncommon even among grotesques, the most imaginative type of decorative tapestries. It exhibits a most entertaining sense of humor and shows a capricious independence never found in the more formal Flemish grotesques of the time. [Sidenote: 37] FONTAINEBLEAU, MIDDLE XVI CENTURY [Sidenote: _Wool and Silk._ H. 12 _ft._ 8 _in._ W. 8 _ft._ ] TRIUMPH OF DIANA: _The goddess in a blue robe, bearing her bow and arrows, drives a pale-blue chariot on which a nymph is tied prisoner. Love, whose wings are beautifully multicolored, also is a prisoner. Diana's attendants, garbed in blue and red tunics, follow on foot, one in the foreground in a green tunic leading a large grey-hound. In the border shells alternate with crescents on a blue ground and in the corners above are crescents and rams' heads. The mottoes "Non Frusta Jupiter Am Bas" and "Sic Immota Manet" are in the upper and lower borders respectively._[27] The tapestry was evidently made for Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II, the subject being chosen as a personal tribute. [Sidenote: Formerly in the Collection of Edouard Kann, Paris.]