In hanging pictures, there must be a scheme to which the general tone of the pictures should conform. A dark carbon mustn't hang close to an etching drawn in delicate lines and bordered by a bright white mat.
If water-colors with their soft tints elbow oil paintings with their bolder tones, the former will be faded, the latter coarsened, by the proximity.
Etchings, photographs, drawings, engravings, water-colors, and pastels may be assembled in friendly terms. Even then, however, there must be judgment exercised in how they are placed.
Dark, heavily-shaded pictures should not always hang in the strongest light, but in some cases seek a sheltered position away from the glare of the windows.
Near the light belong the pictures in fainter tints, the subdued water-colors, the engravings whose best points need illumination.
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