Marguerite de France, duchesse de Berry, duchesse de Savoie

Corneille de Lyon was a portraitist active at the French royal court from the 1530s onward, originally from The Hague. He became one of the most sought-after portrait painters for the French nobility and royalty of the mid-16th century. This portrait of Marguerite de France, duchesse de Berry, is a late work or posthumous copy from around 1600, reflecting his signature small-scale format with the sitter placed against a plain green or blue background — a distinctive formula that influenced French portraiture for decades.

The portrait follows Corneille's characteristic format: a small bust-length figure set against a flat, cool-colored background. The face is modeled with careful precision while costume details — lace, jewels, fabric — are rendered with Flemish-inflected attention to surface texture.