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

catalogue 546 14. Ambrosius Benson, Triptych of St Anthony of Padua. Closed: Annunciation . Open: wings: The Holy Family ; St Secundus, bishop of Avila ?, early 16th century (monogrammed on the central panel, bottom right) Inv. no. 4129 Provenance: bequest of Ms Adema Crooke y de Guzman de Osma, Countess of Valencia de Don Juan, Paris, 1919. Bibliography: Pauwels 1984, 18-19. Panels: central panel: two boards, painted outside the frame. Frames: the frame of the central panel is rebated. The sides and back of the triptych are difficult to observe. Slotted joints (?). Joints of wings cut square on the outside (also the central panel), mitred on the inside of the triptych. The rebate which enables the wings to close flush is not original. A large fitting, not original, reinforces the full length of the stile of the wing at right. The frame of the central panel is thicker than those of the wings. The original polychromy inside the triptych features a stylized floral motif, stencilled in red lake on a gold background.