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Vidocq
The convict who became chief of police, in the serial that kept him on French screens.
What
A very large French affiche for Jean Kemm's serial Vidocq, published around 1922–23 and held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Why
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.
Notice
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.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Vidocq (1923), dir. Jean Kemm
- Country / studio
- France
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- French affiche, 1922
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
In the room
Where it would hang
The reproduction, framed and lit, in rooms built for looking. A rendering — your walls, your frame.
From The French Screen
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The Double Bill
Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
Pair it in the gallery →A house of the Provenance family