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

ANTWERP, ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 333 5. Master of Frankfurt, Portrait of the Artist and his Wife , 1496 (dated on the frame) Inv. no. 5096 Provenance: according to the label glued to the reverse: property of the family of Sir Richard Fordpuis. Then of Perry at Abele Grove (Epsom), then of Mrs Stirling at Kippendaire, Stefan von Auspitz in Vienna, Joseph van der Elst in Vienna. Sotheby’s Sale in London, 17 July 1973. Acquired by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1974. Bibliography: Vandenbroeck 1985, 105-109. Integral frame; single vertical piece; notches for hinges on the left and right rails. Part of the original hinge remains at the top right. The upper part of the frame has been restored (?). The predella carries the date 1496, along with, on either side, the age of the persons: 36 and 27.