The gallery exhibited originals and copies of works by European masters such as Titian, Rembrandt, Watteau, and David, and a few American artists, such as Thomas Sully, Gilbert Stuart, Samuel F.B. Morse, Rembrandt Peale, and William Dunlap.
Arcadia was a legendary site of rural perfection, first described by the Ancient Greeks, that was a popular setting for writers of the 19th century and artists such as Jean-Antoine Watteau.
The wings of the long main house have circular pavilions with preserved decorated vaulted roofs, where formerly the family displayed their art collection, which reputedly held works by Hans Holbein, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and Antoine Watteau .
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Antoine Watteau | Antoine de Caunes | Antoine Brumel | Antoine Walker | Antoine Lavoisier | Marc-Antoine Charpentier | Antoine-Louis Barye | Marc Antoine | Louis Antoine de Bougainville | Antoine, Duke of Lorraine | Antoine Bourdelle | Antoine | Jacques Antoine | Antoine Guichenot | Antoine Grumbach | François-Antoine Devaux | Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay | Charles Antoine Lemaire | Antoine-Vincent Arnault | Antoine Predock | Antoine Louis Rouillé | Antoine Hamilton | Antoine Godeau | Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy | Antoine Claudet | Antoine Albeau | Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye | Paul-Antoine Léonard de Villefeix | Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin |
For the interior decoration he invited fashionable painters of the time - Lemoyne, his disciple Boucher, Watteau and his disciple Lancret and last but not least Jean-Baptiste Oudry.
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Its sumptuous 17th and 18th century interiors were created by the most prestigious artists (Watteau, Boucher, Oudry, Servandoni and others) at the behest of the Princes of Savoy and then the Marquis de la Faye.
A favored method of Watteau and other 17th- and 18th-century artists of the Baroque and Rococo era was to start with a colored ground of tone halfway between white and black, and to add shade in black and highlights in white, using pen and ink or "crayon".
In the arts, the style of the Régence is marked by early Rococo, characterised by the paintings of Antoine Watteau (1684–1721).