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A Young Woman Warming her Hands over a Brazier: Allegory of Winter
Also titled Een jonge vrouw warmt haar handen boven een vuurtest, allegorie op de Winter
Caesar van Everdingen (1616–1678)
c. 1650
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The young woman warms her hands above a dish of glowing coals. She personifies Winter. This season was usually represented as a shabbily dressed old man or woman: old because the year is coming to an end, and poor because crops do not grow in the winter. Van Everdingen's choice of a young, richly attired woman is thus rather unusual.
