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

CHAPTER IV 102 Without wanting to generalize from the particular case of Jan van Eyck, one can easily imagine that a large amount of information has been lost along with the original frames. Many original polychromies with various texts and motifs certainly still exist to this day under later overpaintings of their original frames. Fig. 56. Inscriptions on the frames, in these cases on the lower rails. But inscriptions sometimes invade all parts of the frames. a. Ghent Anonymous, Crucifixion , 1481 (Ghent, CM , no. 1 ). b. Jan van Eyck, Virgin at the Fountain , 1439 (Antwerp, RMFA , no. 3 ). c. Master of the Princely Portraits, Portrait of Louis de Gruuthuse , between 1472 and 1482 (Bruges, GM , no. 3 ). d. Anonymous, Fraternity painting with Christ, Virgin and Child , 1554 (Bruges, GM , no. 19 ). a c b d