Vidocq
Unknown, 1922
$270
Print check at 18 x 24 in: 305 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 0.9% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A very large French affiche for Jean Kemm's serial Vidocq, published around 1922–23 and held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Eugène-François Vidocq — convict turned founder of the Sûreté — was the original model for the detective in European fiction, and the French serial industry returned to him again and again. This sheet belongs to the post-Feuillade wave of ciné-romans, when the serial was still the dominant form of French popular cinema. Scanned at over seven thousand pixels tall: at full resolution the lithographic grain and the weave of the linen backing are both plainly readable. The criminal who wrote the rulebook, sold back to the public as entertainment.
- Maker
- Unknown
- Date
- 1922
- 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-00803
| 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 686 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.1% |
| 11 x 14 in | 499 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.4% |
| 12 x 16 in | 457 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.9% |
| 16 x 20 in | 343 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.1% |
| 18 x 24 in | 305 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.9% |
| 24 x 30 in | 228 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.1% |
| 30 x 40 in | 183 | Good | Trimmed 0.9% |
| 36 x 48 in | 152 | Good | Trimmed 0.9% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 5,492 x 7,388 px, srgb, c2
- Tone
- Darks 13, lights 209 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 375.15
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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