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

catalogue 304 8. Master of Frankfurt (workshop), Virgin and Child with a Pear , c. 1500 Inv. no. 0188.1 Provenance: possibly Convent of the Immaculate Conception, la Puebla, Spain. On the art market in Jerez in the 19th century. Acquired in 1900 by Fritz Mayer van den Bergh from the Bligny Collection, Paris. Originally centre of a triptych, dismembered in 1958. Bibliography: De Coo 1978, 93-94; Mund et al. 2003, 84-97. Panel: the painting has been transferred to a new cradled oak support, with an intermediate gauze. This transfer has caused heavy damage to the paint layer. Frame: rebated frame, backed with a metallic frame attached with screws. Slotted joints, unpegged (?), mitred at the top, the tenon shoulder inclined to the sill at the bottom. Four holes in the upper edge (function unclear). Traces of hinges both right and left suggest that the painting had wings. The black and gold polychromy is original.