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

ANTWERP, MAYER VAN DEN BERGH MUSEUM 321 16. Willem Benson (?), Angel Playing the Harp , mid-16th century Inv. no. 0164 Provenance: Franciscan Convent at Ammerzoden, Holland. Purchased in 1900 at Strelitzky, London. Bibliography: De Coo 1966, 18-19. Panel: single board. Frame: heavily reworked. Only the upper rail remains in its original form. The other elements of the frame have been cut back, probably with a view to insertion in an ensemble. Slotted joints, with single peg at the bottom. A colonette is nailed to the right stile; a new element has replaced the original colonette on the left stile during a restoration. The black polychromy is not original. The reverse was originally covered with a black wash, followed later by a beige wash.