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

catalogue 348 11. Anonymous, Annunciation , second half 16th century Inv. no. 5071 Provenance: belonged to the Emile Renders Collection. Sold to Marshall Goering at the beginning of World War II and found in Berchtesgaden in 1945. Deposited with the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1952. Bibliography: Verougstraete et al. 2004, 36-49. Jef Van der Veken (1872-1964) reworked, repainted or overpainted nearly two-thirds of the surface of an early 16th century work. The aim was to embellish a modest work that was in poor state of conservation. Peter Klein, report on dendrochronology, 27 September 2004 (KIK-IRPA, restoration file). Panel: (39.8 × 49.8 cm) three oak boards thinned to 2 to 3 mm in thickness, arranged vertically (from left to right, measured from the front: 14.9, 20.4 and 14.5 cm across). A join has been reglued. The thinned panel has been cradled. To the front it exhibits an unpainted 0.7 cm edge on all four sides. A barbe has remained intact in certain places (top edge, right edge, upper left edge). Dendrochronology gives 1546 as the first possible date for the execution of the original painting but a terminus post quem of 1552 is more likely. Frame: coarse imitation of an old model. Gilded moulding on the inside and outside flat band with remnants of black paint.