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

catalogue 572 24. Jan II van Coninxloo, Triptych of the St Anne Legend. Closed: The lineage of St Anne ; Donatrix. Open: wings: Joachim sees his offering refused ; The death of St Anne , 1546 (signed and dated on a cartouche above the bed) Inv. no. 338 Provenance: probably the Benedictine Abbey of Forest. Previously mentioned as coming from the Church of the Bogards, Brussels. Bibliography: Vanaise 1970, 112-134; Lafontaine-Dosogne 1970, 134-154; Goetghebeur et al. 1970, 154-176; Pauwels 1984, 64. Panels: seven (?) boards for the central panel, painted in the frame (composition of the wings not observed). The central panel is 1.5 cm thick. Buttons glued to the painted outside of the wing at right serve to strengthen a join. Frames: the shapes of the wings have been changed. The top rails are probably fashioned from the cut-off sections of the stiles. On the outside of the wings, the upper part of the frames is missing. The frames of the wings have slotted joints, cut square on the outside and mitred on the inside. Various inserts in the central frame modify the appearance of the joints, making them difficult to identify. One observes the alternating position of the mixed cuts in the joints of the central frame. On the back of the closed wings, the cheek of the groove of the frames has been removed to extract the panels for treatment. Inside, the black-gold-black-gold polychromy has been redone. The frames of the closed wings have been stripped.