Levasseur’s 1852 department map of the Côte-d’Or — the Burgundian heartland — bordered with the decorative engravings his Atlas National de la France Illustrée gave every department: the natural beauty and trade richness of the land, framing the map itself. Before there was a wine map, there was just a map — the Côte-d’Or was drawn as a place people governed and traded in long before it was drawn as a place people tasted. This is that map. The department line runs the length of the slope without once mentioning a vineyard by name — the terroir hadn’t yet become the subject. Some maps become wine maps only in hindsight.

Maker: Victor Levasseur (cartographer); Frédéric-Guillaume Laguillermie (engraver)
Date: 1852
Medium of the original: Engraving
Original held by: Atlas National de la France Illustrée
Credit: Atlas National de la France Illustrée · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00496

As chosen: 20 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	20 x 16 in
Outside size	21.6 x 17.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	327	Excellent	Trimmed 6.5%
14 x 11 in	238	Excellent	Trimmed 4.8%
16 x 12 in	218	Excellent	Trimmed 0.3%
20 x 16 in	163	Good	Trimmed 6.5%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
24 x 18 in	145 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 24 in	109 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
40 x 30 in	87 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	72 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 3,500 x 2,618 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 80, lights 249 of 255; 0.2% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 875.61