Nowdays, with global trade, you can find or get these various formats in pretty much all countries.
Canvasses formats in France
You can see that, for a given canvas numbers, the longer side is common to the three formats (Landscape, Portrait and Seascape). There is a practical reason for this: it reduces the number of off-cuts in a roll of canvas (see below the first figure showing the three formats one on top of the other).
The interesting point is that these formats give you a different feel:
- Landscape: Rectangle
- Portrait: Rectangle going towards a square format
- Seascape: long format ideal for pamoramas. This format is the less usual one
In Belgium, Germany and Italy, you find some «metrics formats»:
Winsor & Newton offers stretched canvasses
It would be interesting to see how the size of canvasses has evolved over time and when canvas sizes became standardized.
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