Situated right opposite the Natural History Museum, the Musée Wiertz was constructed at the insistence of Wiertz himself during his lifetime. The inside is like a scaled-up version of the Watts Gallery, with woodblock floor and clerestory windows. By 'scaled-up', we mean huge: some of Wiertz' paintings are 30 or 40 feet high.    As well as these monsters, the gallery contains many smaller paintings (some in side rooms -- again like the Watts Gallery), including genre scenes, landscapes and rather Ettyish nudes, in addition to sketches for the larger paintings, and a few pieces of sculpture, including a coquettish Adam-and-Eve piece, 'Époque: naissance des passions'.    Wiertz had his own ideas about materials, and many of the canvases were never primed. The condition of the paintings varies from excellent (maybe restored?) to downright impossible to make out.

Works at Musée Wiertz by Antoine Wiertz