Paintings by such artists as John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, and Renoir will take residence in a new public museum on a California beach bluff.

The will of reclusive copper heiress Huguette Clark, who died last month at 104, was made public Wednesday. She stipulated that one of her homes (which she had not visited in 50 years) –- the 24-acre Santa Barbara estate known as Bellosguardo, for "beautiful view" –- will host her extensive collection of paintings, rare books and musical instruments in a museum. About three-fourths of her holdings, now valued at $400 million, will go to a foundation that will maintain the site.

She left a Monet "Water Lilies" painting, valued at $25 million, to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. where her father's art collection was given decades ago.