Grandmother by the Brazier

The woman sits on a low course of bricks and draws the hem of her blue skirt open above the brazier with both hands. A copper bowl of glowing embers stands on the ground at her feet. Her shoulders are wrapped in a crimson fringed shawl with a striped border, the white hair combed back. Small white flowers are painted across the skirt, and a broad green leaf lies at the base. The crimson shawl meets the blue skirt without transition, and that contrast carries the figure.