Colombes from the Air, Olympic Final Day, 1924

The stadium of the 1924 Games from above, with Paris arriving for the final.

Work: aerial press photograph
Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1924
Ground: Stade de Colombes, Paris
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica · via Wikimedia Commons

A stadium, drawn as a plan by its own crowd.

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

The same day, 9 June 1924, seen from above. Agence Rol photographed the Stade de Colombes from the air as the public made its way to the final of the Olympic football tournament, Uruguay against Switzerland. Colombes was the main stadium of the Paris Games, with room for 45,000, and four years later it would be renamed for the rugby player Yves du Manoir. From up here the stadium becomes a plan of itself: the bowl, the pitch, the roads feeding people in. Uruguay won that afternoon and left Paris unbeaten. This is the ground waiting for it.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

Colombes from the Air, Olympic Final Day, 1924, printed large and framed — in the den, the club bar, the supporters’ bar. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

Colombes from the Air, Olympic Final Day, 1924 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of aerial press photograph — Agence Rol, 1924 — from the copy held by Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica · via Wikimedia Commons. The source. The work was published before 1931 and is public-domain verified.
Printed faithful to that source scan — restore honestly, disclose always. We do not re-colour it, complete it, or interpret it; the piece you receive is the image as it survives, halftone grain honored as history, not damage.
Printed to order on museum-grade cotton-rag stock with pigment inks — the pairing is rated 100+ years.
Colour-managed to the source; the tone of the paper and the ink is the period’s, not ours.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed editions ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our pieces cost more than a poster: a poster is a mass run on wood-pulp stock, colour-corrected to whatever flattered the press that day. This is one sheet, pulled for you, at a size where the maker’s hand is visible — the linework, the halftone grain, the lettering — on materials made to outlast their owner.

From the same hand