Pic′tur‐esque″ (?), a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See Pictorial.] Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is... the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey.
— Pic′tur‐esque″ly, adv. — Pic′tur‐esque″ness, n.