# A Young Woman Warming her Hands over a Brazier: Allegory of Winter

- By: Caesar van Everdingen (1616–1678)
- Date: c. 1650
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: outer size: depth 8 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4878--beec3312477f8d9b1db1daafdb241a33)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/nuhhV/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.