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

catalogue 314 13. Quinten Metsys, Triptych with Christ on the Cross. Open: wings: Donors , c. 1520 Inv. no. 0027 Provenance: purchased in 1897 from the Church of Our Lady of Bergen-op-Zoom. Bibliography: De Coo 1966, 96-97. Panels: central panel of three vertically-placed boards; ground appears to have been prepared outside the frame and the panel painted in the frame; wings: two boards, reinforced with modern wood buttons. Frames: modern reinforcements on the outside in the form of angle brackets on the joints of the wings. Slotted joints above, through mortise and tenon at the bottom. Mitred cuts on the inside. The frame has its original closing hook at the centre of the stiles of the wings. The hanging has damaged the upper rail, which is a single piece of wood and did not resist the weight which it was not destined to carry; it is now split.