The Four Seasons - Winter

The girl folds her arms across her chest, hands drawn into the sleeves, head bent — the cold is read from the pose before any detail. A bird with a russet breast settles on her forearm; a second sits on a bare branch by her hem. Her dress is pink with a scattered flower print, a white kerchief tied over the hair. The ground at the base is left grey and white, without grass. Winter of the Four Seasons does without snow: the season is named by the pose and the stripped branches.