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

Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 583 28. Anonymous, Christ with Reed and Calvary with Donatrix and Female Religious , 1558 (the date 18 March 1558 is inscribed on the base of the central column) Inv. no. 696 Provenance: inventoried before 1848, probably from the Brussels Convent of the Black Sisters, and likely part of the same series as inv. no. 693 of the same Museum. Bibliography: Pauwels 1984, 384. Panel: ± 2 cm thick. Five horizontal boards are assembled with tongue and groove (sometimes V-shaped) joints. The reverse is roughly cut. The sides of the boards are sawn irregularly (later intervention). The very wide unpainted border (7.5 cm), with peg holes (some pegs are still in place), corresponds to the position of an applied frame. The unpainted lower edge has been sawn. Hanging/holding holes remain to the left and right of the unpainted upper edge. The hole to the left (on the back) is partially concealed by a modern batten. Frame: the original frame has not been conserved. Today the panel is placed in a modern frame.