These tapestries, emblematic of Night and Day, display the hunting deities Apollo, the sun god and his sister Diana, the moon goddess, within laurel-wreathed triumphal-arched borders. These hunting deities were also intended to symbolise the months of May and November and formed part of a series of the months. Their borders, designed in the arabesque or grotesque manner, comprise sphynx-capped columnettes with bird-inhabited capitals, while their acanthus-scrolled and feather-hung baldequins are hung with Roman lamps that are embellished with Jupiter's thunderbolt and whose rays enlighten golden-rayed canopies that are wreathed by stars. They relate closely to the cartoons of Claude Gillot (d. 1732), who designed a suite of groteschi tapestries for Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson, which were woven at Beauvais in 1719.

A pair of panels of this pattern, more complete in form, is displayed at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. Diana, for instance, accompanied by the Zodiac sign for Sagitarius, is supported on a sporting-trophy bracket with its laurel-wreathed doe's head attracting the attention of her hounds (P. James, Waddesdon Manor Short Guide, 1959, p. 14, fig. 13). Its composition evolved in part from a 'Triumph of Diana' engraving published by Jean Bérain (d. 1711) (T.A. Strange, French Interiors, London, 1950, p. 96). The figures, which are after paintings executed in 1708 by Claude Audran le Jeune for tapestries for the Dauphin's château de Meudon, featured in tapestries woven in 1710 at Le Blond's Gobelins atelier and entitled 'Les Mois Grotesques' (M.M. Fenaille, Tapisseries des Gobelins, Paris, 1904, pp. 76, 77 and fig. 132). Jean Audran's engravings of the Douze Mois were issued in 1726 and may have encouraged the weaving of a new series