The 15th of March, 1925, at the Stade Buffalo, and four days later the same ground would host Uruguay. In one week Paris saw both halves of the South American game, and the French press wrote about the touch the way people write about a magic trick. Brazil would not win anything for another twenty-five years, but the style that eventually took the world was already legible on this pitch — the low centre of gravity, the ball kept close, the refusal to hurry. Europe had believed it invented football. This was the fortnight that ended the belief. Two Sundays in March, and the centre of gravity moved.

Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1925
Medium of the original: Glass plate negative
Original held by: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1925 · Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1925 · Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01106

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 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	487	Excellent	Trimmed 9.8%
12 x 8 in	450	Excellent	Trimmed 7.6%
14 x 11 in	354	Excellent	Trimmed 8.2%
16 x 12 in	324	Excellent	Trimmed 3.8%
18 x 12 in	300	Excellent	Trimmed 7.6%
20 x 16 in	243	Excellent	Trimmed 9.8%
24 x 16 in	225	Excellent	Trimmed 7.6%
24 x 18 in	216	Excellent	Trimmed 3.8%
30 x 20 in	180	Good	Trimmed 7.6%
30 x 24 in	162	Good	Trimmed 9.8%
36 x 24 in	150	Good	Trimmed 7.6%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
40 x 30 in	129 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	108 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	90 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 5,400 x 3,896 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 36, lights 220 of 255; 0% clipped light, 1.2% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 1.79