Tosca — Adolfo Hohenstein, 1899
Adolfo Hohenstein, 1899
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 40% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyHohenstein’s poster for the premiere run of Puccini’s Tosca, published by Ricordi. Ricordi built its house style on Hohenstein’s theatrical, painterly hand — opera advertising treated with the same seriousness as the stage design itself. Tosca rendered mid-gesture, theatrical lighting painted directly into the lithograph. An opera, sold like a painting.
- Maker
- Adolfo Hohenstein
- Date
- 1899
- Medium of the original
- Theater poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00887
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 40% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 39% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 36% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 40% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 36% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 40% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 36% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 36% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,270 x 2,652 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 29, lights 177 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 0.27
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