Iron

Composition in gray tones, earthy, ochre, green, black, blue and white. Rough texture result of its support of the work. It depicts four metalworkers, all of robust build, working in an iron foundry. In the foreground, on the left, metallurgical mulatto, standing with his back, 3/4 facing right. It wears low-cut shirt and sleeveless pants rolled up below the knees. Has the on the left and on the right lower arm diagonally raised holding a kind of thin tube in that same direction. It has the very legs apart, watching the well earlier on the right than the on the left, and bare feet. On the left corner of the composition, kind of box and on the right, part of a barrel-four links in a chain that would be resting on this. In the background, on the right, another metallurgical also mulatto, standing in profile to the left. It has almost horizontal inclined trunk and arms down as if it were catching on the ground have an iron piece fused rectangular shape with two handles, which lies between its legs that are spaced apart. wear shirt with half sleeve, rolled up pants below the knees and is barefoot. On the left, even in the second level, a shovel on the floor diagonally. On the third level, to the left, another metallurgical this clearer than the first two. He is standing in front, wears only rolled up pants below the knees and has his legs far apart as if making a great effort to hold an iron piece cylindrical bearing horizontally. A little behind this figure, the ground, a pile of symmetrically arranged tubes. To the right of the furnace wall or species with the wall where the heat is conserved and over part of the container containing the iron being cast. In the background, to the left, another metallurgical in the same attitude as described in the third plan. Behind him are seen two arches lit out. Might falling from the left of the composition illuminating all the figures and creating sharp contrast of light and dark on the foreground figure.