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

BRUGES, GROENINGE MUSEUM 449 16. Ambrosius Benson, Rest on the Flight into Egypt , 1530 Inv. no. 0000.GRO0223.I Provenance: Collection of Notary De Block, Zomergem, who, according to oral tradition (1906), found the painting on a farm. Collection of Notary Verstraeten, Zomergem. Acquired in 1905 by the Friends of the Museums and given in 1906 to the City of Bruges. Bibliography: De Vos 1982, 77-78. Panel: two vertical boards; painted in the frame. On the reverse the panel has been rebated for insertion into the groove of the frame. Modern buttons are glued on the butt-join. Frame: the joints at the bottom have been redone, and the originals are no longer recognizable, though the positioning of the pins suggests slotted joints. The curved portion is in two pieces, assembled to the stiles with slotted joints. The stiles include original hinges, attesting that the panel was originally part of a triptych. In each stile: two pegs with no obvious function. The black and gold polychromy has been redone.