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

CHAPTER II 70 In both the Death of the Virgin by Hugo van der Goes (Bruges, Groeninge Museum, inv. no. 0000.GRO0204.I) and the Portinari Triptych (Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. nos. 3191-3193) the joins were reinforced in places with fibres, glued onto crossed incisions. The panels by Colijn de Coter devoted to the Life of St Rumbold (Mechelen, St Rumbold’s Church) have been reinforced on the reverse with fibres glued to the half-lap joints, a type of join unusual in the painting of this time (fig. 34). Fig. 33. A gap in the paint layer reveals the fibres on the right side of the joint of the frame. Jan van Eyck, Virgin and Child with Canon Joris van der Paele , 1436 (Bruges, GM , no. 1 ). Fig. 34. Scratches and fibres on the two joins of the panel. Lumbermarks on the left board. Colijn de Coter, one panel in the series with the Life of St Rumbold (Mechelen, St Rumbold’s Church).