This window depicting the Holy Family is one of several created by the Clermont-Ferrand glass-painter François Taureilles for the Église Saint-Joseph at La Bourboule during the early twentieth century. The composition, inscribed La Sainte Famille, unites St Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and the youthful Christ Child within a domestic setting that symbolises both sanctity and labour.

At the upper centre, Joseph bends over his carpenter’s bench, plane in hand, while Mary, seated before him, spins wool on a distaff. The Christ Child, bare-footed and robed in crimson, assists His foster-father with a length of timber, the axe poised for work. A vase of lilies at Mary’s side serves as her traditional emblem of purity. The grouping is framed by an architectural border of red, turquoise, and ochre ornament, with geometric motifs and stylised crosses enclosing the scene in rhythmic harmony.

Taureilles’s design combines medieval linearity with the clean, luminous colour fields of modern French stained glass. The intense blues, rubies, and greens are offset by areas of clear glass that admit a cool, silvery light, giving the figures quiet vitality. His draughtsmanship is disciplined yet tender: the gently inclined heads and serene expressions convey a sense of familial intimacy rather than sentimental sweetness.

Executed with meticulous craftsmanship, this window forms part of Taureilles’s broader programme for La Bourboule, which re-established the role of stained glass as both decoration and catechesis in early-twentieth-century parish art. It expresses in visual terms the sanctification of ordinary work—the holiness of the home—as embodied in the life of the Holy Family.