{"id":"cma-124038","titulo":{"en":"Winter (1st Plate)","es":"Invierno (1ª plancha)"},"titulo_original":"Winter (1st Plate)","autor":"Alphonse Legros (French, 1837–1911)","fecha":"c. 1857–1911","cultura":"France, 19th century","tecnica":"drypoint","fuente":"Cleveland Museum of Art","licencia":"CC0-1.0","licencia_url":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","credito":"Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection","url_original":"https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.522","imagen_url":"https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.522/1944.522_web.jpg","ficha":{"en":{"titulo":"Winter (1st Plate)","se_ve":"In the lower left foreground, a peasant leans forward under the weight of a long, split log carried over his right shoulder; he wears a cap, a loose shirt with rolled sleeves, a pleated smock or apron over cropped breeches, and bare feet or loose slip-ons sinking into snow. His body is taut and bowed, hands gripping the wood tightly. The log dominates the composition on a strong diagonal from the upper left corner to the lower right, revealing rough bark, exposed grain and tangled roots at its far end. Behind him, gently rolling hills covered in snow stretch into the distance, hatched with fine parallel lines that suggest wind and cold; to the right, a few leafless shrubs break the white expanse. Above, the sky is heavily inked with dense horizontal strokes, almost black against the pale paper. Light is low and diffuse, like a winter dusk, with sharp contrasts between deep black ink and the warm beige paper. The drypoint texture is evident: sketchy, velvety lines, burr-induced soft edges and uneven inking. In the lower right of the plate the initials A. L. appear, with a pencil signature outside the image below.","contexto":"This is Winter (1st Plate) by Alphonse Legros (French, 1837–1911), dated broadly to c. 1857–1911 and executed as a drypoint, according to records from the Cleveland Museum of Art, where it is part of the Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection. Legros was a painter and etcher active in France and England in the second half of the 19th century, linked to Realism and the etching revival. The print depicts rural labor in winter, a recurring subject in his work. The source provides no detailed description, so the specific circumstances of its creation and edition are not known; it likely belongs to a series on the seasons.","como_mirarla":"Follow the strong diagonal of the log that cuts across the sheet, then drop your gaze to the straining figure beneath it. Notice how the dense black of the sky against the hatched white snow heightens the sense of burden and solitude.","dato_curioso":"Drypoint leaves a burr on the copper plate that holds extra ink, creating the soft, velvety black line clearly visible here in the sky and along the edge of the log.","preguntas":["What does the weight of the log suggest about the relationship between the worker and the empty winter landscape?","How would imagining wind and creaking wood change your reading of the scene?","Why might a 19th-century artist choose to portray peasant labor in winter rather than in spring?"]},"es":{"titulo":"Invierno (1ª plancha)","se_ve":"En primer plano, ligeramente a la izquierda, un campesino avanza agachado bajo el peso de un tronco largo y astillado que carga sobre el hombro derecho; viste gorra, camisa de mangas arremangadas, faldón o delantal plisado sobre pantalones cortos y pies descalzos o con alpargatas sueltas que se hunden en la nieve. Su cuerpo está tenso, inclinado hacia adelante, con las manos aferrando la madera. El tronco ocupa la diagonal central de la estampa, desde la esquina superior izquierda hasta la inferior derecha, mostrando vetas, corteza desprendida y raíces retorcidas en su extremo. Detrás, el paisaje invernal se extiende en colinas suaves cubiertas de nieve, tramadas con líneas finas y paralelas que sugieren frío y viento; a la derecha asoman arbustos secos sin hojas. El cielo, arriba, está trabajado con un entintado denso y oscuro que cruza horizontalmente. La luz es difusa y baja, de atardecer invernal, con fuertes contrastes entre tinta negra y papel beige. La textura es la propia de la punta seca: líneas nerviosas, bordes aterciopelados y manchas de tinta irregulares. Abajo a la derecha se distinguen las iniciales A. L. grabadas y, fuera de la imagen, una firma a lápiz.","contexto":"La pieza es Winter (1st Plate), de Alphonse Legros (francés, 1837–1911), fechada de forma amplia hacia c. 1857–1911 y realizada en punta seca (drypoint), según los datos del Cleveland Museum of Art, donde pertenece a la colección Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams. Legros fue pintor y grabador activo entre Francia e Inglaterra en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, asociado al realismo y al renacimiento del grabado original. La obra muestra una escena de trabajo rural en invierno, tema frecuente en su producción. No se cuenta con descripción detallada de la fuente, por lo que no se saben circunstancias específicas de su creación o tiraje; probablemente forma parte de una serie sobre las estaciones.","como_mirarla":"Sigue primero la diagonal del tronco que parte la imagen; luego baja la mirada al esfuerzo del cuerpo que lo sostiene. Nota el contraste entre el negro denso del cielo y la blancura rayada de la nieve, que acentúa el aislamiento y la carga.","dato_curioso":"La punta seca, a diferencia del aguafuerte, deja una rebaba en la plancha que retiene tinta y crea esa línea aterciopelada y oscura tan visible en el cielo y en el contorno del tronco.","preguntas":["¿Qué te transmite el peso del tronco en relación con el paisaje vacío y nevado?","¿Cómo cambia la escena si imaginas el sonido del viento y el crujir de la madera?","¿Por qué un artista del siglo XIX elegiría mostrar el trabajo campesino en invierno y no en primavera?"]}},"etiquetas":{"en":["winter","rural labor","realism","print","drypoint","19th century","peasant","snowy landscape","toil","black and white"],"es":["invierno","trabajo rural","realismo","estampa","punta seca","siglo xix","campesino","paisaje nevado","esfuerzo","blanco y negro"]},"objetos":["campesino","tronco","nieve","colinas","arbustos secos","cielo"],"colores":["#0e0f12","#4a443e","#c9baa8","#e8ddd0","#7a746e"],"animo":["agotamiento","resistencia","soledad gélida"],"epoca":"c. 1857–1911, siglo XIX","certeza":"media","advertencias":[],"capa":{"voces":[{"guia":"la restauradora","en":"I focus on how this print was made. It is drypoint, so every nervous line leaves a velvety burr and irregular ink patches. Look at the dense dark sky at the top and how it contrasts with the beige paper and the snow hatched with fine parallel lines. The trunk cuts diagonally across the image and you can see its grain, the peeling bark and the twisted roots at the end. At the lower right you can make out the initials A. L. and outside the image there is a pencil signature.","es":"Me detengo en cómo está hecha esta estampa. Es punta seca, así que cada línea nerviosa deja un borde aterciopelado y manchas irregulares de tinta. Mira el cielo oscuro y denso arriba y cómo contrasta con el papel beige y la nieve tramada con líneas finas paralelas. El tronco cruza la imagen en diagonal y se ven sus vetas, la corteza desprendida y las raíces retorcidas. Abajo a la derecha se distinguen las iniciales A. L. y fuera de la imagen hay una firma a lápiz."},{"guia":"el astrónomo aficionado","en":"I picture this wintry sunset with low diffuse light, one of those very short afternoons of the year. The sky is inked with a dark horizontal band and the snowy landscape stretches over soft hills covered in white. There is no visible sun, just the contrast between black ink and light paper, as when the sky darkens early. It is striking to think of the cold and wind suggested by those fine hatched lines, while the peasant keeps moving forward bent under the weight of the trunk.","es":"Me imagino este atardecer invernal con luz difusa y baja, de esas tardes cortísimas del año. El cielo está entintado con una banda horizontal oscura y el paisaje nevado se extiende en colinas suaves cubiertas de blanco. No hay sol visible, solo el contraste entre la tinta negra y el papel claro, como cuando el cielo se cierra temprano. Es curioso pensar en el frío y el viento sugeridos por esas tramas finas, mientras el campesino sigue avanzando inclinado bajo el peso del tronco."},{"guia":"la niña de ocho años","en":"Poor man! He is all bent over carrying a giant log that is longer than he is. He holds it on his shoulder and leans to one side, gripping it tight with both hands. He wears a cap and his feet are almost bare in the snow. The log looks scratchy with peeling bark and crooked roots at the tip. Behind him everything is white with hills and a few dry bushes with no leaves. Up above the sky is very black, as if it were already night and very cold.","es":"¡Pobrecito señor! Va todo agachado cargando un tronco gigante que es más largo que él. Lo lleva en el hombro y se va de lado, con las manos bien agarradas. Tiene gorra y los pies casi descalzos en la nieve. El tronco se ve rasposo con la corteza cayéndose y unas raíces chuecas en la punta. Atrás todo es blanco con colinas y unos arbustos secos sin hojas. Arriba el cielo está muy negro, como si ya fuera de noche y hiciera mucho frío."}],"retos":[{"pregunta":{"en":"What long and splintered object does the peasant carry on his right shoulder crossing the print diagonally?","es":"¿Qué objeto largo y astillado carga el campesino sobre el hombro derecho cruzando la estampa en diagonal?"},"pista":{"en":"It is made of wood, shows grain and peeling bark and ends in twisted roots.","es":"Es de madera, muestra vetas y corteza desprendida y termina en raíces retorcidas."}},{"pregunta":{"en":"How many dry leafless shrubs can be seen on the right side of the snowy landscape?","es":"¿Cuántos arbustos secos sin hojas se distinguen a la derecha del paisaje nevado?"},"pista":{"en":"Look to the right, behind the trunk, over the white hills.","es":"Mira hacia la derecha, detrás del tronco, sobre las colinas blancas."}},{"pregunta":{"en":"What engraved initials appear at the lower right inside the image?","es":"¿Qué iniciales grabadas aparecen abajo a la derecha dentro de la imagen?"},"pista":{"en":"They are two letters that match the artist of the print.","es":"Son dos letras que corresponden al artista de la estampa."}}],"conexiones":["trabajo rural","invierno y nieve","esfuerzo físico","luz de atardecer","paisaje de colinas","punta seca y grabado","contraste blanco y negro"]},"salas":[],"escrita_por":"muse-spark-open-1026"}