The interior retains early eighteenth-century paintings by artists such as Louis Laguerre and there is an organ played by Handel and restored in the 1990s to its original condition.

William Sawitzky, an art dealer and art historian, was an authority on eighteenth-century American painting.

From the clothes his people wear, we know that these are eighteenth-century paintings, but otherwise we might not know when they were made.

When the show is over, the rooms will become the permanent setting for eighteenth-century paintings.

Also on the walls, there is an eighteenth-century painting of St. John of God and representations of the life of St. Francis of Assisi.

He studied Antoine Watteau and eighteenth-century French painting.

He wrote numerous books on travel and on the topography of his own homeland, as well as on his other interests: wine, eighteenth-century painting and fishing.

The museum's collection numbers nearly 5,500 objects and is best known for its quality and breadth of eighteenth-century French paintings, Sèvres porcelain and French furniture.

On the walls, there ran those airy eighteenth-century paintings, full of gleaming clouds and fat-cheeked angels, and skies of luminescent blue.

While museum taste in acquisitions was wide, between 1930 and 1945 Hall notes a dominance of Dutch seventeenth-century painting and the popularity of eighteenth-century Venetian painting.