Les Misérables
Cândido Aragonez de Faria, 1912
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, 147 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 1912 for Albert Capellani's four-part Les Misérables, made for Pathé Frères by SCAGL, from the Faria atelier. Capellani's Les Misérables ran to nearly three hours across four parts and is one of the first genuine feature films in Europe — proof that cinema could sustain a novel rather than an anecdote. The poster had to sell length itself, a thing no film advertisement had needed to do before. The horizontal composition treats the story as a frieze of episodes rather than a single scene, matching the multi-part release. The moment the film became long enough to be called a work.
- Maker
- Cândido Aragonez de Faria
- Date
- 1912
- 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-00801
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 |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | 147 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 8 in | 133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | 107 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 12 in | 98 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | 88 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 16 in | 66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | 65 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | 49 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | 44 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 39 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 26 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,600 x 1,182 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 48, lights 212 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 13.76
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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German Expressionism: shadow printed to the stone.
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