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

catalogue 456 19. Anonymous, Fraternity painting with Christ, Virgin and Child , 1554 (dated on bottom front of the frame) Inv. no. 0000.GRO1341.I Provenance: Van de Walle bequest in 1901 to the Archaeological Society. Bibliography: De Vos 1982, 53. This work is designed as a votive painting in diamond shape. Panel: a single board; with joiners’ markings on the reverse. Frame: composed of two parts: a wide inner frame, with lap joints, mixed cut at the front and cut square at the back. Each joint is reinforced with four pegs. The shoulders of the laps on the shorter pieces are cut with protruding Vs, inserted into the side of the longer pieces, so as to mitre the inner moulding. The outer part is attached to the first frame and may not be original. Half-lap joints are found in other cases, and call for second, outer, frames. In the present case, if the outer moulding is not original, it may replace the removed frame. The predominantly black and gold polychromy is original.