The treatment of the children's hair, the way the feet are drawn and the use of red and black chalk can, as Christopher Comer noted on the basis of a photograph, be compared with early Bellange drawings. The type of Saint John the Baptist is comparable with figures in drawings in Saint Petersburg and at Yale, J. Thuillier, L'Art en Lorraine au temps de Jacques Callot, Nancy, 1992, no. 8, illustrated and N. Walch, Die Radierungen des Jacques Bellange, Munich, 1971, p. 216, illustrated