Frames and supports in 15th and 16th-century Southern Netherlandish painting

CHAPTER IV 100 In the 16th century, brown or other colours can also be found on reverses. While black could be used for the insides of wings, as well as for the outside, we do not know of any example where the inside of a wing is marbled. But we do have an example in a carved altarpiece: marbling decorates the inside of wings in an altarpiece fragment representing the consecration of a bishop (Bruges, Museum of the St Salvator’s Cathedral) (fig. 55). Fig. 54. Quinten Metsys, Triptych of the Virgin with the Musician Angels , c . 1509 (Lyon, Museum of Fine Arts). Fig. 55. Detail of altarpiece fragment, Consecration of a bishop , early 16th century (Bruges, Museum of the St Salvator’s Cathedral).