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

catalogue 580 27. Jan II van Coninxloo, wings of a carved altarpiece. Closed: The Mass of St Gregory. Open: The miracle of the broken sieve ; The meal of St Benedict and the priest of Montepreclaro , 1552 (dated on the outside, on a console at the right) Inv. no. 334 Provenance: Benedictine abbey in Forest, commissioned by Abbess Margareta II van Liedekerke (1541- 1560); first mentioned in the 1803 catalogue (no. 95). Bibliography: Vanaise 1970, 112-134; Lafontaine-Dosogne 1970, 134-154; Goetghebeur et al. 1970, 154-176; Pauwels 1984, 65. Panels: two wide vertical boards for each wing, with a slightly convex bevel to facilitate insertion into the frame. On the closed wings, the joins have been planed by a joiner in order to glue buttons to them. Frames: grooved, slotted joints, pegged; mixed cut on the outside and mitred on the inside. In the outside stile of the wing at the right: three pegs and, in the same stile, more to the centre of the wing, two larger, square pegs (function?). The frames no longer have any polychromy.