Young Red Haired Girl Strips Her Clothes At The Wall With Paintings In The Frame

From 1610 to 1643, under the reign of Louis XIII in France, the influence of court and refinement takes center stage in frame designs. The profiles became thinner than their Italian predecessors, and continuous design such as egg-and-dart, ribbon and flow of leaves, and pronounced low relief corner designs appear. This paves the way for Baroque design in picture framing, and "Spanish, Flemish, and Italian influences were all at work to produce a curious intermingling and exchange of ideas."
Pictures frames as art were highly developed in Ortodox countries (e.g., Russia, Serbia) and used to cover icons in churches.