Cockerels

A woman in a floral headscarf and white shawl leans over a wooden tray filled with rows of translucent red rooster-shaped lollipops, offering one to a rosy-cheeked child bundled in a fur-trimmed hood and white scarf who already holds a pink lollipop. Behind them, bare trees and snow stretch back to where two more children in red and blue winter coats play near a distant building.

Bright red candy and the child's flushed cheeks punctuate a cool palette of white snow and grey-brown bark, painted with soft, rounded modeling on the faces and looser strokes in the background. The close, warm exchange between vendor and child gives the winter scene a playful, festive charm.