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

597 GHENT, CITY MUSEUM (CM) 1. Ghent Anonymous, Crucifixion, 1481 (date on the lower rail of the frame) Inv. no. 515 Provenance unknown. Before 1848, at the Ghent Town Hall, at which date the work entered the City Museum. Bibliography: De Schryver and Van de Velde 1972, 185-186, no. 141. Panel: four horizontally-placed boards; barbe and unpainted edge (with paint running over into the unpainted edge). The panel is bevelled on all four sides at the back. It is 0.5 cm thick at the edge. A dovetail key, possibly original − if not, very early − repairs a split in the wood. Parchment strips carrying an old inscription (undated fragment of a City of Ghent official document, 16th century?) are glued on either side of the dovetail with the same objective of repairing the split. Another split, in the same shape, is found also on the bottom board of the panel. The panel and the frame present saw-marks.