As he listens to his envoy's report, Charles VIII is so enthralled by the German lady's beauty that he decides to send his favorite painter, Jean Perreal alias Jean de Paris, to the gentleman's castle to make her portrait and recapture her "living likeness": "On his return to the court he [Bernage] recounted the whole story to his master the King, who found upon inquiry that it was even as it had been told him.