Of all the Montmartre performers, Jane Avril was Lautrec’s favourite — intelligent, melancholy, a dancer who performed almost to herself — and he gave her his best poster. She kicks one leg high at the Jardin de Paris, her face rapt and inward; and in a stroke of pure invention the neck of a double bass rears up from the orchestra pit in the foreground, its scroll and the player’s hand framing the whole scene like a curtain drawn back. The idea is startlingly modern, a century ahead of graphic design. Elegant, strange and tender all at once — the poster as a portrait of a real, particular person.

Maker: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 to 1901)
Date: 1893
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00655

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 10 in	1514	Excellent	Trimmed 7.7%
8 x 12 in	1367	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
11 x 14 in	1101	Excellent	Trimmed 6%
12 x 16 in	1009	Excellent	Trimmed 1.5%
12 x 18 in	911	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
16 x 20 in	757	Excellent	Trimmed 7.7%
16 x 24 in	683	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
18 x 24 in	673	Excellent	Trimmed 1.5%
20 x 30 in	547	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
24 x 30 in	504	Excellent	Trimmed 7.7%
24 x 36 in	455	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
30 x 40 in	403	Excellent	Trimmed 1.5%
36 x 48 in	336	Excellent	Trimmed 1.5%
40 x 60 in	273	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%