Ludwik de Laveaux (painter)

Stanisław Ludwik de Laveaux (21 November 1868 – 5 April 1894) was a Polish painter.

[1][2] Born in Jaronowice, he came from a French Protestant family who had emigrated to Poland in the 18th century.

Often living in poverty contributed to his development of tuberculosis, of which he died at the age of 25 years.

Known for his many romances, the most famous of which was his affair with a count's daughter Iwona Prośnieńska from the town of Olkusz.

He died on 5 April 1894 in Paris and was buried at the Cimetière parisien de Pantin (plot 2, range 11, nr.