The Tiger Hunt
Velay
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1807 (after)
Materials
Wallpaper and gouache
Measurements
420 mm (Width); 2210 mm (L)
Place of origin
Paris
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608103.1
Summary
A French wallpaper panel, previously attributed to Joseph Dufour but now considered to be probably by Velay of Paris, as it could possibly be part of the 'Vues de l'Inde' series. Gouache on paper. Large wallpaper panel in three sections, hand printed with Indian landscape. Central monument of five ogee arches beside weir and rushing water. Town wall and riverside mosques against distant mountains and palm trees. Figures in traditional costume. Pasted to new back paper, unframed. The “Tiger Hunt”, variously known as “Paysage Indien”, “Chasse au tigre”, “Chasse indienne” or “Vues de l’Inde”, was attributed by Nancy McClelland to Dufour and dated to 1815 (N. McClelland, Historic Wall Papers, Philadelphia and London, 924, p. 360). She illustrates a set in the Putnam-Hanson House, 94 Boston Street, Salem, Massachusetts. However, the set has been attributed to the Velay Manufactory (see O. Nouvel-Kammerer, Papiers Peints Panoramiques, Exhibition Catalogue, Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Paris, 1998, pp. 306-307). The Velay Manufactory was a contemporary of Dufour and active in Paris after 1807. Other examples of this set are in a private collection in Puy-de-Dôme, Rhone, Haute-Saône, France, in Belgium and Jönköping, Sweden.
Provenance
Attingham collection; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Makers and roles
Velay , manufacturer