Lot Essay
Part of a series of drawings after Andrea del Sarto, 28 of which are in the Uffizi, Florence, see A. Giovanetti, Francesco Morandini, detto il Poppi, Florence, 1995, D2, figs. 115-127. A study after the left side of The Annunciation to Zacharias dated 1569 is part of the group at the Uffizi (inv. no. 14464F), see ibid., fig. 115.