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

catalogue 504 11. Pieter Claeissens the Younger, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van het Boompje , 1608 (signed and dated at the bottom of the panel) Inv. no. O.OTP0045.I Bibliography: Maertens 1939, 95-96, no. 32. Panel: seven vertically butt-joined boards, with the joins reinforced with wide (9.5 cm) keys inserted into the sides of the boards, not pegged to the panel. They appear in an open join. The boards are arranged symmetrically by width on either side of the central board. The panel, which is 3 cm thick, was painted outside the frame. It is reinforced at the rear with two tapered cross-bars of trapezoidal cross-section, embedded into the panel into alternate directions. These bars are not attached to the frame. The panel is held into the frame with wooden swivel cams.