An advertisement for cigarette papers, and one of the most beautiful printed objects of the nineteenth century. A woman leans back with her eyes half closed, and her hair — the thing everyone remembers — unfurls around her in enormous whiplash coils that fill the sheet, rhyming with the drifting smoke. The lettering sits behind her in a golden mosaic field; the palette is amber, ivory and deep umber. Mucha treated a commercial commission with the ambition of a fresco, and Paris peeled his posters off the hoardings to keep them. Proof that the Art Nouveau line was invented on the street, not in the salon.

Maker: Alphonse Mucha (1860 to 1939)
Date: 1896
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: Published Paris (Champenois) for JOB
Credit: Published Paris (Champenois) for JOB · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00620

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	692	Excellent	Trimmed 4.2%
12 x 16 in	482	Excellent	Trimmed 7.2%
12 x 18 in	461	Excellent	Trimmed 4.2%
16 x 24 in	346	Excellent	Trimmed 4.2%
18 x 24 in	321	Excellent	Trimmed 7.2%
20 x 30 in	277	Excellent	Trimmed 4.2%
24 x 36 in	230	Excellent	Trimmed 4.2%
30 x 40 in	192	Good	Trimmed 7.2%
36 x 48 in	160	Good	Trimmed 7.2%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
40 x 60 in	138 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

5,784 x 8,311 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)

Tone

Darks 19, lights 235 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

4.65

Notes

Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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