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

catalogue 668 TONGEREN, MUNICIPAL COLLECTION (MC) 1. Rogier van der Weyden (follower), Virgin and Child with Donor , second half 15th century Bibliography: Verougstraete-Marcq and Van Schoute 1979, 25-28. See also another version of this composition: PC , no. 1 . Panel: two vertical boards, radially cut and butt-joined. The panel, which is 0.9 cm thick, was slotted into the groove of the frame before painting. Frame: mortise and tenon joints, with mixed cut at the front and cut square at the back. One reinforcing peg in each corner. There are no traces of hinges. The original polychromy has been preserved. The gilding of the moulding continues onto the outer flat band, where a black line separates it from the red marbling. The actual mitre joint is extended by a painted mitre.