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

Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts 609 4. Master of the Lineage of St Anne, Triptych of the Lineage of St Anne with St Catherine and St Barbara . Closed: Annunciation on a brown marbling background. Open: wings: Donors with their Patron Saints , c. 1500 Inv. no. 1906 B Provenance: Collection of Prof. H. Gräbenitz, Solingen. Acquired by the Friends of the Museum in 1974. Bibliography: De Bruyn, 1975, 192, no. 32. Integral frames. The outsides of the wings are flat; the frame is black with a painted cavetto in trompe-l’œil , dark to the left, well-lit to the right. The central panel consists of three boards, butt-joined with dowels. An early, but non-original paint layer covers the reverse; a thicker paint wash also covers the sides, revealing an earlier black layer. Two closing hooks, one at the top of the upper rail, the other on the underside of the lower rail. The hinges are modern.