ATTRIBUTED TO THE SOLARI WORKSHOP, LOMBARDY, CIRCA 1740

The Solari family had an artisan workshop producing high quality scagliola panels that predominantly worked on ecclesiastical commissions in Lombardy and Piedmont. Pietro Solari (1687-1762) was assisted by his sons Francesco (1707-1769), Cristoforo (1718-1775) and Giacomo (1712-1742). The present panels of birds, trees and flowers can be compared to the decoration of an altar front, emanating from the family workshop in 1743, in a private Florentine collection, and another in Santa Maria Assunta, Schignano, Como (A. M. Massinelli, Scagliola, l'arte della pietra di luna, Rome, 1997).