1800 Italian School Drawer

PAINTED WOODEN DRAWER, LUIGI MORGARI Turin, last quarter of the 19th century In wavy shape, with two drawers and a smaller one on the strip, the top in imitation marble, with edges and frames with scrolls, rockery and shells, fully decorated like a sky populated by cherubs playing and playing among swallows holding ribbons and garlands of flowers. Signed lower left on the front. Dimensions 102 x 140 x 65 cm Luigi Morgari from Turin (1857-1935), author of the refined decoration of this chest of drawers, for a long time collaborated with his father Paolo Emilio and Uncle Rodolfo also in the decorative arts and established himself in exhibitions from Turin, Milan, Florence and Rome, specializing in both religious and secular subjects. Appreciated for his skills in composition and his refined sense of color, he received second prize twice in the competition of sacred art in 1898 and 1900. The Duchess of Genoa commissioned him two works, The memories of the grandfather and Preliminary for the gallery of the castle of Agliè and numerous are the frescoes carried out in the churches of Piedmont, Lombardy and Liguria.