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

ANTWERP, MAYER VAN DEN BERGH MUSEUM 295 4. Master of the Prado Redemption, Lamentation , 1470 Inv. no. 0003 Provenance: was in the 19thcentury in a church in Valladolid, Spain (?). c. 1875, in the Bligny Collection, Paris. Purchased in 1899 by Fritz Mayer van den Bergh from the Bligny Collection. Bibliography: De Coo 1978, 163-164; Mund et al. 2003, 56-71. Panel: four radially-cut elements, butt-joined horizontally. The rear of the panel is rough-planed and slightly bevelled on the four edges. The joins of the boards were reinforced with buttons in 1954 and the surface coated with wax. Painted in the frame. Frame: initially grooved. The back lip of the groove has been cut off to allow the extraction of the panel for a conservation treatment. The frame has otherwise preserved its original size and construction. The slotted joints are mixed-cut (partly oblique and partly square) at the front and square at the back; the upper joints being double- pegged, the bottom joints reinforced with a single peg. The bottom rail has a sloping sill; the three other elements have mouldings. The black and gold polychromy is original.