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

BRUGES, GROENINGE MUSEUM 419 3. Master of the Princely Portraits, Portrait of Louis de Gruuthuse , between 1472 and 1482 Inv. no. 0000.GRO1557.I Provenance: purchased in 1961 from M. Vincent, Paris, owned by the latter’s family already in the 19th century. Given that a portrait of Louis de Gruuthuse from the A. van den Bogaerde Collection was placed on auction in Bruges on 15 October 1866 (no. 456), it is possible that this was the same work. Bibliography: De Vos 1982, 156-157. Panel: a single board, slotted into the groove of the frame before painting. Reverse: remains of ground in the fibres of the wood. Frame: top: mortise and tenon, pegged (?); bottom: mortise and tenon, unpegged (?). The gilded polychromy, with text, is original. The side of the frame is also gilded and has traces of a hinge on the left. This suggests that it belonged to a diptych.