The Tiger Hunt
Velay
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1807 (after)
Materials
Wallpaper, canvas and gouache
Measurements
50 mm (Width); 2240 mm (L); 110 mm (Width)
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608104.2
Summary
One of two narrow strip off-cuts of French wallpaper, previously attributed to Joseph Dufour but now considered to be probably by Velay of Paris. Gouache on paper/canvas. Printed with riverside temples and palm trees and possibly part of the 'Vues de l'Inde' series. 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