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

Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 569 23. Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, Triptych of the Micault Family. Closed: Jesus at the House of Martha and Mary. Open: centre: Resurrection of Lazarus ; wings: Jean Micault, Receiver General of Charles V, and his Three Sons ; Livina Cats van Welle, Wife of Jean Micault, and her Four Daughters , first half 16th century Inv. nos. 385 and 679 Provenance: St Lazarus Altar in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of St Michael’s Cathedral in Brussels. Bibliography: Pauwels 1984, 312. Panels: the central panel received the initial coat of ground outside the frame and was then painted in the frame. The reverse was not examined. Frames: central frame redone (?). The frames of the wings have slotted joints, each reinforced with four pegs. The moulded cheeks of the grooves have been sawn at the back to remove the panels and replaced by a modern quarter-round profile nailed to the frame. The outside stiles have remains of pegging for shutting. The original polychromy has undergone an “artistic stripping”.