The young woman in this painting warming herself by placing her hand over a burning coal is a personification of winter.Winter is generally personified as a "poor old man.The reason for "poor" is that in winter there is no harvest of grain, and the reason for "old" is that in Europe winter is the end of the year.However, this painting personifies "winter" as a "young woman.The "winter" in this painting is warm and gentle.Thank you for reading to the end.