The Holy Family with Dog (1645–1650) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - Public Domain Catholic Painting
The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a confraternity