Surroundings of Francesco MORANDINI, known as il POPPI (Poppi 1544 - Florence 1597) Saint John the Baptist preaching in the desert after Andrea del Sarto Black pencil and estompe. Former attribution to Andrea Del Sarto, lower center in the margin in pen and brown ink. Drawing doubled, small piece of paper added at bottom center (on the foot). (Horizontal center folds, insolate, foxing, epidermis, stain lower right). 42 x 36.8 cm Provenance : Former collection of P.H Lankrink, stamped lower right (L.2090). Our drawing is based on one of the frescoes in the Scalzo cloister. Francesco Morandini, known as Il Poppi, made a series of copies after the figures in the cloister, collected in an album in the Uffizi (see : A. Giovannetti, Francesco Morandini detto Il Poppi, Editions Edifer, 1995, n°D2, fig.115 to 127).