Les mystères de Paris — Vienna sheet
Ernst Dryden, 1922
$140
Print check at 12 x 16 in: 181 dpi, good. Trimmed 0.2% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Ernst Dryden's 1922 Austrian poster for the Phocéa Film adaptation of Les mystères de Paris, a linen-backed sheet of roughly 95 by 125 centimetres. Dryden came out of Vienna's poster and fashion world and would later design costumes in Hollywood. Austrian cinema advertising of the early 1920s pulled directly from the Secession and from couture graphics, and this is one of its most confident survivals. The compression of a sprawling serial novel into one held gesture — Dryden refuses to itemise the plot. Vienna's design schools, briefly working for the box office.
- Maker
- Ernst Dryden
- Date
- 1922
- 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-00824
| Picture | 12 x 16 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 13.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 273 | Excellent | Trimmed 6% |
| 11 x 14 in | 198 | Good | Trimmed 4.3% |
| 12 x 16 in | 181 | Good | Trimmed 0.2% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 136 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 121 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 72 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 60 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,186 x 2,908 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 27, lights 233 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 14.29
- Notes
- Neutrals lean toward green: the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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