Portrait of Bonne d'Artois, Duchess of Burgundy, half-length, in a red fur-lined coat and a white headdress

According to Max J. Friedländer (Early Netherlandish Painting, I, ed. N. Veronee-Verhaegen, Leyden, 1967, p. 66), a sixteenth-century portrait formerly in the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin-Dahlem, which coincides precisely with a drawing in the Arras Codex, Bibliothèque municipale, Arras, would appear to be the closest interpretation of the lost original. The present painting appears to derive from that early copy.

The sitter was the second wife of Philip the Bold; they married in 1424 and she died a year later in childbirth.