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A Young Woman Warming her Hands over a Brazier: Allegory of Winter
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.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/41B211
- http://iconclass.org/23D41
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/41B211
- http://iconclass.org/23D41
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- c.1644 - c.1648
Place-Time
- second quarter 17th century
Provenance
- …; collection H.R. van Maasdijk, The Hague, 1932;{Blankert 1991, note 6; note RKD.}…; private collection, The Hague, 1940;{Bloch 1940, p. 20.} …; private collection;{Blankert 1991, p. 507.}…; anonymous sale, The Hague (Glerum), 25 November 1991, no. 123, to the dealer R. Noortman for the museum
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.2
- SK-A-4878
Extent
- height 97 cm
- width 81 cm
- depth 8 cm
Format
- oil paint (paint)
- canvas
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:16:56.262Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:12.056Z