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

catalogue 312 12. Master of 1518 (follower), Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi . Open: wings: Adoration of the Shepherds ; Circumcision , c. 1518 Inv. no. 0033 Provenance: Carlo Micheli Collection, Paris. Purchased in 1898 from the collector’s heirs. Bibliography: De Coo 1966, 93-94. Panels: central panel of three vertically-placed boards, painted in the frame (unpainted edge ± 0.5 cm); wings: two boards. On the outside of the wings, the paint layer has been removed; one wing is reinforced with wooden buttons; the other wing has been cradled. The joins in the central panel are also reinforced on the reverse with wooden buttons. Frames: slotted joints, mitred on the inside, cut square on the outside; pegging on each side of the mitre. Hinges remade, but original closing hook in the centre of the stiles of the wings. All angles on the outside of the wings and the reverse of the central panel are reinforced with multiplex triangles nailed to the frames. The gilded polychromy is not original.