Grasset’s poster for his own exhibition at the Salon des Cent, Paris’s premier poster-art gallery. The Salon des Cent existed to show that posters belonged in a gallery at all — Grasset’s own announcement for it is the argument made literal. The same stained-glass heaviness of line as his Librairie Romantique plate, applied here to his own name. The medium, vouching for itself.

Maker: Eugène Grasset
Date: 1894
Medium of the original: Exhibition poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00874

As chosen: 8 x 12 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	8 x 12 in
Outside size	9.6 x 13.6 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	220	Excellent	Trimmed 1%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
12 x 18 in	147 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
16 x 24 in	110 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
20 x 30 in	88 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
24 x 36 in	73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
40 x 60 in	44 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged