A mysterious, mysterious table because of anonymous, mysterious painter also as for its major direction.
One can date it from the years 1560-1565, around Fontainebleau. It is certainly a portrait of the lady of the years 1560, the lady of the court of Henri II, probably, Diane of Poitiers.
Diane, for the ones it is the charm made woman, it is softness, kindness, languor which characterize the woman; for others, it is the domination made woman, of almost male qualities, an influence on the beings that it côtoie. Patron and businesswoman, adored and hated, respected and adulated, it was also terribly feared.

Here thus Diane, MUSE of the painters of his time. Its portraits innovate in France the myth of the Eros of the cold beauty .

Two other versions of this table are in Worcester and Dijon . all present the same composition, the same woman with the same very round face at the same time and whose features have this something of pointed, the same hardly buckled chest, the same decoration with a maidservant leaning on a trunk.

Google trans of berger foundation page on Diane de Poitiers
link meander from a book review in the Guardian UK