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

661 ST-TRUIDEN, SEMINARY (S) 1. Pieter Coecke van Aelst, wing with the Annunciation and Abbot Willem van Brussel . Outside: Double Intercession , before 1532 (Willem van Brussel was abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St-Truiden from 1516 until his death in 1532) Provenance: Benedictine Abbey of St-Truiden. Bibliography: Verougstraete-Marcq and Van Schoute 1979, 39-43. Panel: four vertical boards, butt-joined with dowels (three dowels on the outer joins, one dowel on the inner join). On the Double Intercession two horizontal lines can be seen in the centre where the cracking is more marked. This zone corresponds to two (unexplained) high density points on the X-radiograph. The thickness of the panel, painted in the frame (barbe and painted edge) is 0.7 cm. Frame: modern. The presence of hinges on this modern frame suggests that the wing belonged to an ensemble until relatively recent times.