3614105 Angelica and Medoro, c.1630 (oil on canvas) by Blanchard, Jacques (1600-38); 121.6x175.9 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Story from the epic narrative Orlando Furioso by the sixteenth-century Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto. Angelica was the pagan daughter of the king of Cathay. She abandoned the Christian knight Orlando for a Moorish soldier, Medoro, when Cupid wounded her with a dart. They carved their names wherever they went. In the early 1630s Blanchard was decorating the galleries of various private houses in Paris with such narratives ); French, out of copyright.