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

catalogue 616 Profile of the frame of the central panel Successive states of the frames of the wings, as we described them in 1989 This photo of the ensemble shows the frame produced in 2009, inspired by the old model. The diagrams describe the assembly as it still existed shortly before 1989, with the original applied frames pegged to the insides of the wings. Already at that time, on the reverse of the wings, that ought to have been left flat and unframed, a modern frame was deemed to be of good effect, cutting it out in the lower left corner of the Swooning Virgin, so as not to hide part of an inscription. Since then, the new wooden frame, modelled on the earlier frame (which has not been kept, but gone missing), has carried the triptych inside a second, metal frame, protected by a new pane of glass.