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

catalogue 292 2. Master of the St Ursula Legend, Portrait of a Woman with a Pink , second half 15th century Inv. no. 0008 Provenance: acquired in 1900 from the Hochon Collection, Paris. Bibliography: De Coo 1978, 102; Mund et al. 2003, 188-201. Panel: single radially-cut oak board. Wide bevels at the top and the bottom of the panel, narrower ones on the sides. Painted in the frame. Frame: the elements are assembled with triangular stub tenons, each reinforced with a single peg. All joints are mitred at the front and cut square at the back, with the pegs invisible from the reverse. The joints are similar to those found in frames of Memling paintings in the St John’s Hospital in Bruges. The mouldings too are similar: a flat strip between a moulding (or an inclined sill) next to the painting and a protruding, black-painted outer border. The inner moulding of the stiles rests on the inclined sill of the bottom rail. An inscription is applied with a brush on the back of the frame: “Edelink” (18th or 19th century?). Several modern holes. The frame is painted in imitation reddish-brown and grey-green marble, with joins painted distinctly in a dark colour.