After the afternoon light shifts, the study suddenly has a pulse. The hare stops being a picture on the wall and starts watching the room back, with the dark floral ground deepening as the lamps come on.

What changes is the temperature. The cream, soft pink and mustard florals warm up cool walls, while the near-black background pulls the eye and steadies a busy corner.

It earns its keep above a writing desk, an old sideboard, or in a hallway where people pause. Eye level works; slightly low and intimate works better.

Pair it with aged oak, linen, brass fittings and ceramics in earthy tones. A reading lamp nearby is the whole trick.

Don’t surround it with other busy florals or competing posters it wants a little quiet wall on either side. Stretched over a solid wooden frame, ready to hang straight out of the box.