La Maison du mystère — premier épisode
Francisco Tamagno, 1923
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 111 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA French affiche of 1923 for the first episode of Alexandre Volkoff's ten-part serial La Maison du mystère, drawn by Francisco Tamagno. The film was made by the Russian émigré company Albatros at Montreuil, staffed by artists who had fled the Revolution and who reshaped French cinema through the 1920s. Tamagno — the affichiste behind the Les Vampires sheet — links the wartime Gaumont serial directly to this émigré generation. Serial posters were printed per episode, and this one carries its episode number: a fragment of a set designed to reappear on the same wall week after week. A Russian exile studio, a French wall, and a story rationed out one week at a time.
- Maker
- Francisco Tamagno
- Date
- 1923
- Medium of the original
- One-sheet poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00804
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 | 111 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | 100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | 80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 74 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | 50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 49 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 40 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | 37 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 29 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 24 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 20 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 888 x 1,200 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 46, lights 188 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 4.98
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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