A Pathé Frères affiche for the 1905 trick-film féerie La Poule aux œufs d'or, designed by Cândido Aragonez de Faria and distributed in the Netherlands by Jean Desmet. The féerie was early cinema's most extravagant genre — stencil-coloured fairy spectacle built on stage machinery — and the poster had to promise colour on a screen most audiences had only seen in black and white. This is the sales pitch for the medium's first special effects. The palette runs deliberately hotter than any photograph of the era could be; Faria is selling the stencil colour, not the story. A promise of enchantment, printed before cinema had learned modesty.

Maker: Cândido Aragonez de Faria
Date: 1905
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-00794

As chosen: 16 x 20 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	16 x 20 in
Outside size	17.6 x 21.6 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
8 x 10 in	335	Excellent	Trimmed 5.3%
11 x 14 in	243	Excellent	Trimmed 3.6%
12 x 16 in	221	Excellent	Trimmed 1%
16 x 20 in	167	Good	Trimmed 5.3%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
18 x 24 in	147 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 30 in	111 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
30 x 40 in	88 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 2,683 x 3,543 px, srgb, c2
Tone: Darks 32, lights 227 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 23.67