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

CATALOGUE 350 BRUGES, GREAT SEMINARY (GS) 1. Master of the St Catherine Legend, Triptych of the Last Supper . Closed: black paint. Open: wings: The Jewish Passover ; Elijah’s dream , second half 15th century Provenance: probably Dunes Abbey, Koksijde, from where the majority of the works conserved in the Great Seminary originate. Bibliography: Lobelle-Caluwé 1984, 268-269; Steyaert 2003, 73-92. Panels: the central panel is composed of three vertical boards, each wing of a single vertical board. The panels have been painted in the frame. The joins of the central panel have been restored by gluing a thin strip of wood to the reverse of each join. Frames: with original base and cornice. Top: slotted half-dovetail joints with mitre, bottom: through mortise and tenon joints with tenon on the stiles. The central frame is thicker than the side frames. The Brussels joiners’ mark (plane and compass) is struck several times at the end of the lower rail of the central frame. Original closing latch. The polychromy has been redone. Outside of the wings: black paint (original?).