Le Règne de Louis XIV
Cândido Aragonez de Faria, 1904
$191
Print check at 20 x 16 in: 161 dpi, good. Trimmed 7% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A French affiche for the 1904 Pathé historical short Le Règne de Louis XIV, drawn by the Brazilian-born poster designer Cândido Aragonez de Faria. Faria ran Pathé's poster atelier through the industry's first decade and effectively set the visual grammar of the film poster: a tableau of the picture's biggest scene, the title in banner script, the brand beneath. Cinema had no advertising language of its own yet, so he borrowed from the music-hall affiche and taught it to sell moving pictures. The composition is horizontal, not vertical — Faria staged it like a proscenium, so the eye reads it as a stage set rather than a page. The first grammar of film advertising, worked out in a Paris print shop before anyone knew what a film poster was.
- Maker
- Cândido Aragonez de Faria
- Date
- 1904
- 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-00793
| 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | 323 | Excellent | Trimmed 7% |
| 14 x 11 in | 230 | Excellent | Trimmed 8.6% |
| 20 x 16 in | 161 | Good | Trimmed 7% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | 107 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,230 x 2,778 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 63, lights 193 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 9.31
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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