Oil on oak: 52 x 66 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, December 2014. This picture belongs to a series of four panels representing the seasons. In the foreground are the staples of a winter diet: red and white cabbage, carrots, sugar beet and sausages, as well as the household items like a copper warming pan and firewood. The waffle iron and the mask with the red costume on the floor probably serving as a reminder of Carnival, the feast which signals the end of the darker months and the beginning of Spring.
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