A Pair of French Scenic Wallpaper Three-Panel Screens, Grande Chasse au Tigre dans l'Inde (The Tiger Hunt)

Attributed to The Velay Manufactory, Paris, Circa 1818

hand-blocked paper painted with gouache, mounted on wood panels; depicting a panoramic Orientalist scene, the reverse of each panel painted turquoise with a gold border; the design is also known as Paysage Indien, Chasse au Tigre, Chasse Indienne or Vues de l'Inde.
Each panel, height 84 x width 17 3/4 inches.

Property of a Southampton & Palm Beach Collector

Some of the elements in this design are said to have been taken from William and Thomas Daniell’s “Oriental Scenery” published in London in 1795, with two temples taken from Daniell’s engraving “Hindoo Temples at Bishabund”.

The decorative arts historian Nancy McClelland formerly attributed this design to Dufour and dated it 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, in 1998, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, exhibited panels of this design as produced by 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. Another example of this set is held in the UK National Trust collection at Attingham.

A Pair of French Scenic Wallpaper Three-Panel Screens, Grande Chasse au Tigre dans l'Inde (The Tiger Hunt)

A Pair of French Scenic Wallpaper Three-Panel Screens, Grande Chasse au Tigre dans l'Inde (The Tiger Hunt)