Gazette du Bon Ton — "L’Embarras du Choix" (Lepape)
Georges Lepape, 1913
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 85 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA Georges Lepape pochoir fashion plate, "L’Embarras du Choix," from the Gazette du Bon Ton. Lepape’s simplified, almost cubist figures pushed fashion illustration toward modernism years before the rest of French graphic design caught up. The figure’s silhouette is built from three or four flat shapes — nothing extraneous. The line that got there first.
- Maker
- Georges Lepape
- Date
- 1913
- Medium of the original
- Fashion plate
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00871
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.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 85 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | 79 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | 62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 57 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 52 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | 39 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 38 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 31 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | 26 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 22 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 19 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 15 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 687 x 948 px, srgb, GIMP built-in sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 66, lights 227 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 7.34
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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