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

catalogue 552 17. Anonymous, Annunciation , first quarter 16th century Inv. no. 6053 Provenance: gift of Ridder Pieter Smidt-van Gelder, Amsterdam, 1937. Bibliography: Pauwels 1984, 393. Panel: a single board slotted into the groove of the frame. The panel is bevelled, with the beginning of a tongue on one side. Frame: top: originally slotted joints, mitred at front, cut square on reverse. These joints have been restored using corner keys. The joints at the bottom are slotted joints, mixed cut at the front, cut square at the back. The front tenon shoulder (on the stile) is angled to the inclined sill. Two hanging/holding holes have been pierced from the upper side through to the front of the frame (usually hanging holes are to the back). The black and gold polychromy is original.