Metlicovitz’s poster for Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, published by Ricordi. Metlicovitz succeeded Hohenstein as Ricordi’s house artist — this poster is the same opera-advertising tradition one generation on. The kimono’s pattern rendered with the same flat, exact color the house used for its most prestigious commissions. A tragedy, sold in the house’s most beautiful colors.

Maker: Leopoldo Metlicovitz
Date: 1904
Medium of the original: Theater poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00888

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 24 in
Outside size	19.6 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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	402	Excellent	Trimmed 2.3%
12 x 16 in	274	Excellent	Trimmed 9%
12 x 18 in	268	Excellent	Trimmed 2.3%
16 x 24 in	201	Excellent	Trimmed 2.3%
18 x 24 in	183	Good	Trimmed 9%
20 x 30 in	161	Good	Trimmed 2.3%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
24 x 36 in	134 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	109 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 3,297 x 4,833 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 34, lights 194 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 78.34