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

catalogue 470 25. Anonymous, Protestant Family at Table , 1583 Inv. no. 0000.GRO1618.I Provenance: Convent of the Black Sisters of St Augustine, Bruges. Acquired in 1965. Bibliography: De Vos 1982, 71-72. Panel: four boards; the painting was produced outside the frame. On the reverse: heavy reinforcements with metal and wood cross-bars, which caused the panel to crack in several places. Frame: rebated; four slotted joints, mitred at the front, cut square at the back; a strong modern wood frame is screwed onto the original frame to hold the panel in place. This has contributed to the cracks in the panel. Old black and yellow ochre polychromy. Dated 1583 on the flat band of the frame, in the upper part.