Rooms go quieter when soft cream is this sure of itself. A young girl in profile, painted by Klimt in 1898 long before the gold leaf years bobbed hair, a pale ruffled blouse, one small red lip.

Put it on a wall and the room exhales. The pale background doesn’t shout; it just settles everything around it. The single red note keeps the picture from going flat.

It hangs well in a bedroom, a nursery, or a calm hallway. Above a low chest of drawers or a reading chair is ideal. Eye-level, not too high.

It likes linen, pale oak, soft plaster walls, a stoneware lamp, a wool throw in cream or oat. Aged brass works too.

Don’t put it next to anything loud a bold abstract or a saturated landscape will fight it. Let it be the quiet one in the room.