Pictures that carry a room. Chosen for scale and for how they sit with ordinary furniture — warmer palettes, quieter subjects, nothing that needs a chapel to make sense of it.

By: Roberto Ferruzzi

By: Edmund Blair Leighton

By: Rembrandt

By: William-Adolphe Bouguereau

By: Frederick George Cotman

By: Pompeo Batoni

By: Thomas Cole

By: Thomas Cole

By: John Everett Millais