Lessive Flamande (after Stanek)

 

Christophe Adrien (Count) Regley de Koenigsegg

  1823 - 1903 (biography)

c. 1895  

watercolor 

5 3/4 x 3 3/8" image size 

not signed, as usual 

1 of 1 unique 

"d'apres Stanek" on tan wove backing sheet 

 

white wove 

 

 

13187 

$400.00 

A charming watercolor in miniature after the Belle Epoch advertisment for Lessive Flamande, a Belgian cleaning detergent, originally designed around 1890 by Emanuel Stanek (French: 1862 - 1920). After retiring from the French Navy, Count Regley de Koenigsegg - who had pursued art in his youth before entering the military - took up watercolor painting and carefully recreated several dozen Belle Epoch posters at around 1/16th the original size.