Part of a series of sixteen drawings of Christ, Mary, Joseph and the Apostles of circa 1640-44, which were engraved in reverse. Others from the series, of similar size and technique, are in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg and in the Stedelijk Prentenkabinet, Antwerp (S. Béguin, E. Duverger, J. Foucart, A. Roy, B. Vernet, Theodoor van Thulden, Un peintre baroque du cercle de Rubens, Zwolle, 1991, pp. 168-9, no. 25 and pp. 260-1, nos. 53-9)