It is considered to be one of the world's great museums.

A great museum is not a place full of star performers who do their own thing and look neither to right nor to left.

But a great museum is expected to defend the integrity of an artist's work.

He suddenly became the man whom every great museum had to have.

Many a great museum would be proud to have a show of that stature.

There is simply no way to reach the standard now expected of a great museum at a bargain price.

And why should Fragonard not be at home in a great museum?

It almost seemed as if to them the market was some great museum or showplace.

"Like almost every other great international museum, we have to look for alternative sources of revenue," he said.

Many of these collections then found their way into the world's great museums.