A fine-dining room is one of the hardest spaces in commercial interior design to dress. The lighting is low, the conversation must be the loudest sound, and the wall art has to read at a distance of three to twelve metres from a seated guest while staying invisible enough that no one accidentally describes it as the reason they came. Six paintings from the European canon are unusually well-suited to this brief.

Seven canonical paintings for fine dining walls — Sargent's Madame X, Vermeer's Astronomer, Caravaggio's Saint Jerome, Hammershøi, Velázquez, Whistler. With size and frame brief.