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

catalogue 680 PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (PC) 1. Rogier van der Weyden (follower), Virgin and Child , second half 15th century Another version of this composition is conserved: Tongeren, MC , no. 1. Panel: a single board, painted in the frame. Bevelled on the reverse. On the front, in one of the corners, a piece of fabric is glued onto the panel below the ground to correct a defect in the original wood. Frame: grooved; mortise and tenon joint, mixed cut at the front and cut square on the reverse. The joints are not pegged. The left corner is fairly heavily damaged, revealing a tenon in a huge mortise. The original polychromy is damaged: gold tempera on the moulded edges on a reddish base. The gilding continues over onto the flat part of the frame, which elsewhere is painted with red marbling (red lake, on its own or on a thin layer of vermilion?). The gold and red are separated by a black line. A white line simulates a straight cut (offset from the actual cut) aligned with the outer edge of the gilding. There is no polychromy on the sides, and there are no traces of hinges.