The Virgin and Child with Saint Joseph at the work bench

We are grateful to Professor Leonard Slatkes for pointing out that the figure of Saint Joseph corresponds with a print after a lost work by Bigot (see B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, ed. L. Vertova, Turin, 1990, II, fig. 860). The figures on the left side, Mary and the young Christ, relate to a painting of the same subject, close to Honthorst, in the Bob Jones University, (ibid., III, fig. 1281). Professor Slatkes compares their handling with a picture of Saints Peter and Paul, formerly attributed to Bigot, in the museum at Aix.