He also hung an enviable antique Italian painting on the wall.

Subtly hand-colored with transparent oils, the photographs have the look of antique paintings.

He also etched a set of friezes and basso-relievi, among them, the Aldobrandini Marriage from an antique painting.

He specialized in grotesque engravings based on antique paintings.

Accompanying the antique paintings are works created by self-taught 20th-century artists on loan from a private collection.

He was given the opportunity to give lectures at the Art Academy during the winter 1826-1827 on antique paintings.

A single antique painting by Antonio Jacobsen, one of America's best known marine artists, is in the show.

Among the antique paintings on the wall is a photo with a ghostlike image taken by a recent patron.

"I've been shopping for the antique paintings and documenting them," Miss Wesselmann said.

Old and antique paintings such as watercolour paintings, for example, usually must be placed away from direct sunlight.