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

catalogue 522 5. Antwerp Anonymous, Portrait of the Wife of Willem de Moelenere , c. 1499 Inv. no. 2596 Provenance: purchased from the Collection of Duke Engelbert d’Arenberg, Brussels, 1873- 1874. Bibliography: Pauwels 1984, 376; Dubois et al. 2009, 174-184. Integral frame. Single radially-cut board. In the background of the painting are the initials T K to the left and C (?) K to the right. A hollow mark is stamped into the reverse. An old inscription (not original?) is painted, head down, on the reverse: Willem de Meulenaere/huisvrou . Willem de Meulenaere was burgomaster of Antwerp in 1499. Various fragments of paper are glued to the board: one carries the date 1497, another 1520. Two hanging/holding holes are pierced in the top. The black and gold polychromy has been redone.