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

LEUVEN, CHURCH OF St PETER 615 to have been renewed a further two times. As a result, the original frames have disappeared. The first aim was to place a protective pane of glass between the frame and the painting, probably at the time (1998) that a pane of glass was placed in front of Dirk Bouts’ Martyrdom of St Erasmus (Leuven, SP , no. 2 ). The glass was subsequently deemed to be the cause of the formation of mould and removed. The frame of the triptych was then renewed by framer Paelman for the Van der Weyden exhibition in September-December 2009 at the Leuven Museum. The exhibition and its catalogue were remarkable, but for historians interested in the original frames, with one or the other exception, no work was any longer presented in its original frame. Since then, in 2009, a new frame was modelled in the design of the original frame, now lost; a metal frame carries the triptych, protected by a new pane of glass.