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

LEUVEN, M-MUSEUM 649 The polychromy is original. The flat band of the outer frame is decorated with festoons of gilded leaves on a black background. The interior frame is painted with various scenes and bordered with a gilded moulding. The representation of secondary scenes on an inner frame recalls the engravings of the time, like those of the Wierix brothers.