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

ANTWERP, ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 337 7. Master of 1499, Diptych of the Virgin in the Church and Abbot Christiaan de Hondt . Reverse: Salvator Mundi ; Abbot Robrecht de Clercq , 1499 (dated on the base below Christ’s feet and under the portrait of Robrecht de Clercq) Inv. nos. 255-256-530-531 Provenance: acquired by Van Ertborn from Nicolas de Roovere, the last abbot of the dissolved Dunes Abbey, in 1827. Van Ertborn legacy in 1841. Bibliography: Vandenbroeck 1985, 125-130; Hand et al. 2006, 140-149, 287-288. Integral frame for each wing. On the outside, the moulding consists of a cavetto moulding for the curved part and an inclined sill for the base.