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

catalogue 644 11. Anonymous, Coat of Arms with St Gertrude , c. 1500-1549 Inv. no. S/40/O Provenance: probably offered by the Leuven archers’ guild of St Gertrude to the rhetoric chamber De Peterseliepoot . Property of the City of Leuven, on deposit with the Museum since 1976. Bibliography: Crab 1977, 194. Panel: a single element; wide bevel on the reverse; thickness: 0.7 cm. Various modern inscriptions on the reverse. Frame: the four elements are assembled with slotted joints. The distribution of the pegs is distinctive: the left and right corners of each diamond have three pegs; the other two corners have two pegs each, in both cases, alternating on either side. The hanging bracket is possibly original; the angle brackets are later. The frame and support have old, matching notches, these are for the nails that hold the panel in the frame. Small rectangular corbels, carved directly into the wood (1.5 cm wide) decorate the front of the frame. The frame has been stripped; some original (?) black paint remains.