Les Transatlantiques
Unknown, 1928
$235
Print check at 16 x 24 in: 284 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 0.3% 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 very large French affiche published by Aubert in 1928 for Pierre Colombier's Les Transatlantiques, after Abel Hermant, held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The transatlantic comedy of manners was a French staple of the twenties, and 1928 was the last year such a film could be made silent without apology. Aubert was among the major French distributors of the period, and this sheet is a full-scale record of how it dressed a wall. The BnF scanned this at close to seven thousand pixels tall; at full size the paper fibre and the grain of the lithographic stone are both legible. The last confident year of the silent screen, printed at wall height.
- Maker
- Unknown
- Date
- 1928
- 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-00807
| Picture | 16 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 25.6 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 12 in | 569 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.3% |
| 12 x 18 in | 379 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.3% |
| 16 x 24 in | 284 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.3% |
| 20 x 30 in | 227 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.3% |
| 24 x 36 in | 189 | Good | Trimmed 0.3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 113 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 4,553 x 6,850 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 58, lights 214 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 1.15
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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