Issued in 1966, this 1.00 franc French stamp features Georges de La Tour’s serene Baroque masterpiece The Newborn Child. The painting captures a tender domestic scene of a mother holding her infant by candlelight, symbolizing purity, warmth, and maternal devotion. The soft chiaroscuro lighting—a hallmark of La Tour’s style—creates a sense of intimacy and spiritual reflection. Designed and engraved by Jules Piel, this issue celebrates French artistic heritage and the quiet beauty of everyday life immortalized in 17th-century art.