Zodiac
Alphonse Mucha (1860 to 1939), 1896
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 11% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA woman in strict profile, jeweled and diademed, set against a great golden disc ringed with the twelve signs of the zodiac — Mucha’s most reproduced design, made in 1896 as a calendar. Every inch is worked: the coils of her hair, the Byzantine ornament, the astrological wheel turning behind her like a halo. It is the moment decorative art discovered it could be as ambitious as any painting. A perfect bridge to the celestial and the astrological — the heavens rendered as pure ornament.
- Maker
- Alphonse Mucha (1860 to 1939)
- Date
- 1896
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- Published Paris
- Credit
- Published Paris · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00600
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 |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 116 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | 90 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 77 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 58 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 46 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 38 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 27 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 23 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,000 x 1,400 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 13, lights 235 of 255; 0.1% clipped light, 0.5% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0.1% vivid
- Sharpness
- 13.84
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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