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

catalogue 480 2. Adriaen Isenbrant (workshop), Triptych of the Descent from the Cross . Closed: texts and date on a light blue-grey background. Open: wings: Carrying of the Cross ; Resurrection , 1520 Inv. no. O.OTP0044.I Bibliography: Maertens 1939, 93, no. 28; Fallon 1982-1983, 133-141. Panels: the central panel is comprised of three vertical boards, the most narrow of the three being at the centre; wings: a single board (?). The central panel was rebated at the back and slotted into the groove in the frame before painting (depth of insertion roughly 1.5 cm). Frames: grooved; slotted joints; on outsides of the wings and at back of central panel: square cuts; inside, at top: mitres; at bottom: mixed cut (tenon on stiles) with the tenon shoulder angled at the front to the inclined sill.