Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen 1530-35 Bernard van Orley Netherlandish At the end of the 1520s, Henry III of Nassau, advisor to Emperor Charles V, commissioned eight tapestry designs from the Brussels master Bernard van Orley glorifying his ancestors in the house of Orange-Nassau. The tapestries were woven by Willem de Moyen in Brussels, but were probably destroyed in a fire in 1760, and this and six other drawings are the only record of the commission. Discovered only shortly before the Museum acquired it in 1995, this drawing depicts one of Henry's fourteenth-century ancestors, Count Otto II of Nassau and his wife Adelheid van Vianden, seated on horseback, splendidly dressed, against the backdrop of an elaborate landscape. Their coats of arms, a festoon, and a cartouche mentioning their names top the composition, but the tapestry would also have had an ornamental border all around the composition. The contrast between the figures and their carefully observed h

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Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen 1530-35 Bernard van Orley Netherlandish At the end of the 1520s, Henry III of Nassau, advisor to Emperor Charles V, commissioned eight tapestry designs from the Brussels master Bernard van Orley glorifying his ancestors in the house of Orange-Nassau. The tapestries were woven by Willem de Moyen in Brussels, but were probably destroyed in a fire in 1760, and this and six other drawings are the only record of the commission. Discovered only shortly before the Museum acquired it in 1995, this drawing depicts one of Henry's fourteenth-century ancestors, Count Otto II of Nassau and his wife Adelheid van Vianden, seated on horseback, splendidly dressed, against the backdrop of an elaborate landscape. Their coats of arms, a festoon, and a cartouche mentioning their names top the composition, but the tapestry would also have had an ornamental border all around the composition. The contrast between the figures and their carefully observed h

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