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

catalogue 524 6. Albrecht Bouts, two wings with Donors. Donor with St James Major ; Donatrix with St Barbara , c. 1500 Inv. nos. 402-403 Provenance: earlier repositories. First mentioned in catalogue 1809 (nos. 53 and 54). Bibliography: Pauwels 1984, 32; Stroo et al. 2001, 176-187; Henderiks 2011, 367-368. Panels: each is a single board, painted in the frame. Frames: grooved; through mortise and tenon joints. Mouldings and mixed cut on the closed wings and on the inside. The polychromy is largely redone. On the inside, the inner mouldings were originally covered with gilding on a red substrate; the flat surrounds and lower rails probably with red marbling. On the closed wings: remains of brown marbling on a grey-beige base layer.