[3] Malouel is recorded as working in Paris painting armorial decorations on cloth (probably for banners) for Isabelle of Bavaria, Queen of France, in 1396–97, but by August 1397 he was in Dijon, the capital of the Duchy of Burgundy, where he succeeded Jean de Beaumetz (d. 1396) to the position of court painter to Philip the Bold, with the rank of valet de chambre.

[8] This has Philip's coat of arms painted on the back, so should predate his death in 1404, and the "unusual iconography of the piece clearly links it to [Champmol]",[9] which was dedicated to the Holy Trinity, who all appear.

The style of the work mixes Northern and Sienese elements, in a fashion characteristic of the International Gothic court art of the period.

The ducal accounts record the provision of pigments (but not gold) to Bellechose to complete ("parfaire" = "perfect") a "painting of the life of St Denis", known to have been a subject of Malouel's, and some see a difference in style among the figures, while others do not.

[15] It is believed the Berlin picture was one wing of a diptych opposite a portrait of John the Fearless, which would be the first known example of this format, later very common in Netherlandish painting.

[17] A number of other works are, or have been, attributed to Malouel or his workshop, including a smaller Pietà tondo in the Louvre,[18] the "Antwerp-Baltimore polyptych",[19] also sometimes associated with Melchior Broederlam, and a damaged Entombment of Christ in Troyes.