Henry James employed the aesthetic concept of picturesque prevailing in fields of architecture,painting and gardening from the late 18^th to mid-19^th century in his novelistic narration as an intermedia attempt in fiction writing.This paper aims to explore his breakthroughs of using the picturesque in The Spoils of Poynton and The Aspern Papers through a comparative study.In these two novellas James displayed the pictureque concepts of foreshortening,varied colors,and ruin and decay in construction of the architecture-centered scenes which the romance-type plot entailed.He endowed his fiction with a pictorial form to manifest an admirable kind of tension arising from the double perspectives and overflowing with romantic sentiments at the same time.James's picturesque is his primary attempt in ekphrasis representation.He breaks the picturesque convention of focusing on the natural landscapes and shifts to humanity scenes instead,focusing on man's relation to art particularly.