Angelica and Medoro, possibly early 1630s, Oil on canvas, With added strip at top 47 7/8 x 69 1/4 in. (121. 6 x 175. 9 cm), Paintings, Jacques Blanchard (French, 1600?1638), The canvas illustrates a passage from Ludovico Ariosto's (1474?1533) epic poem Orlando Furioso (XIX:36), in which the two lovers engrave their names in the bark of a tree. Because the surface is worn, the letters are no longer visible