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

BRUGES, GROENINGE MUSEUM 427 6. Hans Memling (follower), St Andrew (outside) and Descent from the Cross (inside), late 15th century Inv. no. 0000.GRO1393.I Provenance: placed on deposit by the Church of St Vaast, Reningelst, in 1959. Bibliography: De Vos 1982, 165-167. Panel: single board (?). Frame: groove and tongue. Identical mouldings on front and back. Polychromy of frame: grey, rather crude marbling, also on the sides; no traces of hinges. The frame has similarities (mouldings, square cut, polychromy) with that surrounding Margaret van Eyck (Bruges, GM , no. 2 ). The assembly of the frame members is unusual for the time. The absence of traces of hinges strengthens the hypothesis that this is a late frame, produced after the dismembering of a diptych.