Chemin de Fer d'Orleans, Bretagne (after Hugo d'Alesi)

 

Christophe Adrien (Count) Regley de Koenigsegg

  1823 - 1903 (biography)

c. 1895  

watercolor 

6 1/8 x 4 1/4" image size 

not signed, as usual 

1 of 1 unique 

"d'apres hugo d'alesi" in ink on white wove backing sheet, lower right 

 

white wove 

 

 

13165 

$400.00 

After the travel advertisement poster by Hugo d'Alesi, featuring a view of the coastal cliffs of Southern Brittany (Bretagne), with life preserver inset depicting the citadel of Le Palais commune. The original poster was commissioned by the Chemins de Fer railway travel agency on behalf of the d'Orleans line.