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

catalogue 476 28. Anonymous, Rest on the Flight into Egypt , late 15th/early 16th century Inv. no. 0000.GRO1243.I Provenance: bequeathed in 1951 by Mr and Mrs O. Meulenaere-Van den Berghe to the Groeninge Museum. Bibliography: Verougstraete et al. 2004, 50-61. The Rest on the Flight into Egypt was significantly modified by Jef Van der Veken (1872-1964) from a Virgin and Child with a view to embellishing it with many details, taken in part from the traditional iconography of the theme. Exhibited in 1954 (Antwerp, La Madone dans l’art ) and 1955 (Schaffhausen, Meisterwerke Flämischer Malerei ). Peter Klein, report on dendrochronology, 27 September 2004 (KIK-IRPA, restoration file). Panel: cradled (57. 1 × 44. 1 cm), two boards, butt-joined with dowels. 0.5 cm unpainted edges with barbe on the right edge and some elements of barbe on the upper edge. False unpainted edges scratched into the coating, on the other two sides without barbes. Dendrochronological examination indicates 1464 as the first terminus post quem for the original painting, but a date after 1472 is more likely. Frame: Gothic revival, with many alterations and overpaintings in the upper corners. The frame was probably associated with the painting prior to Van der Veken’s intervention and seems to have been made for it.