diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1466548e4e3..84d50a5d467 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ Bugs fixed
 ----------
 
 * #6925: html: Remove redundant type="text/javascript" from <script> elements
+* #7032: html: :confval:`html_scaled_image_link` is disabled for images having
+  ``no-scaled-link`` class
 * #6906, #6907: autodoc: failed to read the source codes encoeded in cp1251
 * #6961: latex: warning for babel shown twice
 * #6559: Wrong node-ids are generated in glossary directive
diff --git a/doc/usage/configuration.rst b/doc/usage/configuration.rst
index 6a25ae9eca5..2fe7bb7aafe 100644
--- a/doc/usage/configuration.rst
+++ b/doc/usage/configuration.rst
@@ -1357,8 +1357,21 @@ that use Sphinx's HTMLWriter class.
    'target' option or scale related options: 'scale', 'width', 'height'.
    The default is ``True``.
 
+   Document authors can this feature manually with giving ``no-scaled-link``
+   class to the image:
+
+   .. code-block:: rst
+
+      .. image:: sphinx.png
+         :scale: 50%
+         :class: no-scaled-link
+
    .. versionadded:: 1.3
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.4
+
+      It is disabled for images having ``no-scaled-link`` class
+
 .. confval:: html_math_renderer
 
    The name of math_renderer extension for HTML output.  The default is
diff --git a/sphinx/builders/html.py b/sphinx/builders/html.py
index b3d2f1da27b..6161d157bd0 100644
--- a/sphinx/builders/html.py
+++ b/sphinx/builders/html.py
@@ -836,13 +836,17 @@ def post_process_images(self, doctree: Node) -> None:
 
         if self.config.html_scaled_image_link and self.html_scaled_image_link:
             for node in doctree.traverse(nodes.image):
-                scale_keys = ('scale', 'width', 'height')
-                if not any((key in node) for key in scale_keys) or \
-                   isinstance(node.parent, nodes.reference):
-                    # docutils does unfortunately not preserve the
-                    # ``target`` attribute on images, so we need to check
-                    # the parent node here.
+                if not any((key in node) for key in ['scale', 'width', 'height']):
+                    # resizing options are not given. scaled image link is available
+                    # only for resized images.
                     continue
+                elif isinstance(node.parent, nodes.reference):
+                    # A image having hyperlink target
+                    continue
+                elif 'no-scaled-link' in node['classes']:
+                    # scaled image link is disabled for this node
+                    continue
+
                 uri = node['uri']
                 reference = nodes.reference('', '', internal=True)
                 if uri in self.images:
diff --git a/tests/roots/test-html_scaled_image_link/conf.py b/tests/roots/test-html_scaled_image_link/conf.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/tests/roots/test-html_scaled_image_link/img.png b/tests/roots/test-html_scaled_image_link/img.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a97e86d66af
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/roots/test-html_scaled_image_link/img.png differ
diff --git a/tests/roots/test-html_scaled_image_link/index.rst b/tests/roots/test-html_scaled_image_link/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0e4794058f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/roots/test-html_scaled_image_link/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+test-html_scaled_image_link
+===========================
+
+.. image:: img.png
+
+.. image:: img.png
+   :scale: 50%
+
+.. image:: img.png
+   :scale: 50%
+   :class: no-scaled-link
diff --git a/tests/test_build_html.py b/tests/test_build_html.py
index 63a5948af6f..5e99fec597c 100644
--- a/tests/test_build_html.py
+++ b/tests/test_build_html.py
@@ -1542,3 +1542,22 @@ def test_validate_html_static_path(app):
     ]
     validate_html_static_path(app, app.config)
     assert app.config.html_static_path == ['_static']
+
+
+@pytest.mark.sphinx(testroot='html_scaled_image_link')
+def test_html_scaled_image_link(app):
+    app.build()
+    context = (app.outdir / 'index.html').text()
+
+    # no scaled parameters
+    assert re.search('\n<img alt="_images/img.png" src="_images/img.png" />', context)
+
+    # scaled_image_link
+    assert re.search('\n<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="_images/img.png">'
+                     '<img alt="_images/img.png" src="_images/img.png" style="[^"]+" /></a>',
+                     context)
+
+    # no-scaled-link class disables the feature
+    assert re.search('\n<img alt="_images/img.png" class="no-scaled-link"'
+                     ' src="_images/img.png" style="[^"]+" />',
+                     context)