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

catalogue 632 6. Antwerp Anonymous, Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi . Open: wings: Adoration of the Shepherds ; Circumcision , 1521 (?) (dated in a cartridge on a pilaster in the centre: A°1572, painted over the original date which appears to read 1521) Inv. no. S/16/O Provenance: Leuven, Groot Begijnhof Church. Conserved in the Museum since 1976. Bibliography: Bessemans et al. 1988, 54-56; Crab 1977, 188. See another version of the composition: Ghent, CM , no. 2 . Panels: two vertical boards for the central panel, one board for each wing. The central panel is bevelled on all four sides. The wings have rounded bevels front and back. Frames: grooved for both the centre panel and the wings. Slotted joints, mixed cut on the outside and mitred on the inside. The outer stile of each wing has two holes on the side, with a peg remaining in one of them. This is a system for closing the wings with pegs locking into peg holes.