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

CATALOGUE 380 10. Anonymous, Man of Sorrows , last quarter of the 15th century Inv. no. O.SJ0184.I Bibliography: Lobelle and Van Cleven 1976, 576-577, S.73. Panel: a single piece slotted into the groove of the frame. On the reverse: irregular bevel on three and a half sides. The panel is 3mm thick at the edges. Frame: grooved; mortise and tenon joints, tenon shoulder advanced at the front to give a mixed cut, cut square at back. Single peg reinforcement in each joint. The polychromy is original: oil gilding on the moulding, green and brown marbling on the outside, separated by a black line, with the gilding spilling over onto it. On the outside, a black listel (little glued strip of wood, original, as attested by the barbe and unpainted edge visible where this strip is missing). A mitre is painted in black at each corner (the joints are mixed cut). No hinge notches in the sides of the frames. The moulding and polychromy evoke Memling’s frames; but the joints differ from those of the frames used by the latter. The features of the frame lead us to date this work to the last quarter of the 15th century.