This finely composed stained-glass window depicting Saint Joseph with the Christ Child was completed in 1887 by Noël Lavergne, the year of his father Claudius Lavergne’s death. Its design reflects the stylistic continuity of the Lavergne atelier, bridging the elder’s classical discipline with the younger’s more delicate handling of colour and figure. Installed in the Church of Notre-Dame-la-Blanche at Selles-sur-Cher, it stands as one of Noël’s earliest independent commissions and a testament to the workshop’s enduring devotional aesthetic.

The composition is organised in three tiers. In the upper register, Saint Joseph stands holding the Christ Child, who raises his hand in blessing. The grouping is tender yet hieratic, set against a luminous blue field framed by a vine of roses and lilies — symbols of purity and paternal devotion. Below, the middle panel features paired saints, possibly St Teresa of Ávila and St Francis de Sales, their figures contained within quatrefoils and rendered with refined, linear modelling characteristic of the Lavergne style. The lower section presents a single standing female saint, robed in red and framed by foliate scrolls, completing the vertical progression from paternal care to contemplative faith and active virtue.

The colour palette is disciplined yet radiant — blues, vermilions, and golds balanced with clear glass and precise enamel shading — producing a tranquil, harmonious light within the church’s interior. Noël’s draughtsmanship remains faithful to the Ingresque line inherited from his father, while his use of warm, transparent tones reveals a subtler, more personal sensibility.

Executed at a moment of transition in the Lavergne workshop, this window captures both continuity and renewal within one of the most intellectually rigorous stained-glass ateliers of nineteenth-century France. It exemplifies the devotional restraint, compositional order, and finely painted precision that defined the Lavergne contribution to the later phase of the Didron school.