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The Baptist's sermon among a crowd of bystanders in a landscape oil on canvas Oil on canvas, 62x73.5 cm - 78.5x89 cm (with frame) The complete sheet written by Professor Eduard A. Safarik dated 18 June 1990 is reported in its entirety, in which the painting is attributed to Pieter Schoubroeck (Hessheim, circa 1570 – Frankenthal, 1607). Pupil, perhaps, of Gillis van Coninxloo, the artist was active in Italy around 1595, significantly contributing to the diffusion of the peculiar characteristics of the Frankenthal school, in particular with regard to landscape settings in subjects of a mythological, biblical nature or taken from classical history. The painting in question is configured as a representative example of this expressive poetics, based on a dense narrative, populated by a multitude of figurines, in which the main scene rarely dominates, appearing rather absorbed in the compositional whole. The latter is distinguished by a balanced balance between lively figurative notations, rendered with bright and pleasant chromaticism, and precise landscape underlining, chiaroscuro and well delineated - typical, in this case, the imposing oaks. Among the works useful for comparison, there are close analogies with the copper painting of the same subject preserved in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig, as well as with the painting Christ Heals a Sick from the Staatliche Gemäldegalerie in Kassel. Works such as the one analyzed here, due to their peculiar descriptive meticulousness, must finally be considered as essential precedents for the formation of Adam Elsheimer. W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts, III, München 1948/1960, fig. 743 L. Salerno, Seventeenth-century landscape painters in Rome, I, Rome 1977-1978, p. 42, fig. 7.1 Private Collection, Rome