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

catalogue 604 2. Master of the Lineage of St Anne, Triptych of the Lineage of St Anne , c. 1500 Inv. no. S.106 Provenance: gift of Johanna Maria Berckmaes to the Beguinage of St Aubert (so-called Poortakkere ), Ghent, in 1834. Acquired by the Museum c. 1850. Bibliography: De Bruyn 1975, 190-191, no. 31. Panels: the central panel consists of four vertically-placed boards, each wing of two vertically-placed boards. The boards are butt-joined. The panels are rebated at the back and slotted into the grooves of the frames. Frames: grooved; with mortise and tenon joints; mixed cut at front and cut square at the back, pegged. The frames of the wings are less thick than the central frame, with narrower mouldings. Traces remain of a closing hook at the centre of the stiles of the wings. The hinges are modern. Peg holes on the underside of the lower rail tell us that the triptych was intended to be placed on a solid surface, as does the absence of any hanging system at the top. The polychromy has been stripped back, except for the gilding on the moulding.