Salammbô
Unknown, 1925
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 124 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA French affiche of 1925 for Pierre Marodon's Salammbô, adapted from Flaubert's novel of mercenary revolt in ancient Carthage. The mid-1920s were the high tide of the European super-production, when French and Franco-German capital tried to out-build Hollywood on ancient-world spectacle. Flaubert's archaeological prose gave that ambition a respectable literary cover. The design assembles the cast as a frieze rather than isolating one face — the picture is being sold on ensemble and scale, not on a single name. Flaubert's Carthage, rebuilt in a French studio and sold by the acre.
- Maker
- Unknown
- Date
- 1925
- 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-00808
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 | 124 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | 113 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | 90 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 82 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 75 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | 62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 45 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | 41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | 37 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 | 22 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 995 x 1,358 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 9, lights 252 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 2.67
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