Moneyball — underexhibited works
Met Museum works worth a second look that aren't currently on view.
2026-05-31T05:31:55+00:00
Legend: ⭐ = the Met has flagged this work as a collection highlight (isHighlight=true in its catalog).
Section A — Top works currently not on view, by network-central artists
| Artist | Work | Date | Type | Met link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacques-Louis David | Leonidas at Thermopylae ⭐ | ca. 1812–13 | Drawing | Met |
| Jean-Léon Gérôme | Bashi-Bazouk ⭐ | 1868–69 | Painting | Met |
| Jacques-Louis David | Head of a Child | Painting | Met | |
| Jacques-Louis David | Scene from Ancient History: Cup Offered to an Invalid | n.d. | Drawing | Met |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine) ⭐ | 1818 | Drawing | Met |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | Madame Félix Gallois ⭐ | 1852 | Drawing | Met |
| Alexandre Cabanel | Echo | 1874 | Painting | Met |
| Alexandre Cabanel | Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1828–1887) | 1876 | Painting | Met |
| Alexandre Cabanel | Florentine Poet | 1861 | Painting | Met |
| Auguste Rodin | Les cathédrales de France ⭐ | 1914 | Met | |
| Fernand Cormon | Crouching Woman | n.d. | Drawing | Met |
| Fernand Cormon | The Vanquishers of Salamis | 1889 | Met | |
| Jean-Léon Gérôme | Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets) | 1884 or earlier | Painting | Met |
| Jean-Léon Gérôme | Prayer in the Mosque | 1871 | Painting | Met |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume ⭐ | 1617 | Drawing | Met |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Bust of Pseudo-Seneca ⭐ | 1600–1626 | Drawing | Met |
| Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant | Judith | possibly ca. 1886 | Painting | Met |
| Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant | The Sultan's Tiger | Painting | Met | |
| Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant | Scene in a Harem (Un Envoi de Serbie) | 1876 | Painting | Met |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | Odalisque in Grisaille | ca. 1824–34 | Painting | Met |
| William Merritt Chase | James Abbott McNeill Whistler ⭐ | 1885 | Painting | Met |
| William-Adolphe Bouguereau | The Proposal | 1872 | Painting | Met |
| William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Two Sleeping Children | n.d. | Drawing | Met |
| William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Art and Literature | 1882 | Met | |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Cottage among Trees ⭐ | ca. 1650 | Drawing | Met |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci ⭐ | 1634–35 | Drawing | Met |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Satire on Art Criticism ⭐ | 1644 | Drawing | Met |
| Auguste Rodin | The Embrace | 1900–1910 | Drawing | Met |
| Auguste Rodin | The Abandoned | ca. 1902 | Drawing | Met |
| Thomas Couture | Soap Bubbles | ca. 1859 | Painting | Met |
| Thomas Couture | Study for "The Enrollment of the Volunteers of 1792" | ca. 1848–51 | Drawing | Met |
| Thomas Couture | Study for the decoration of the ceiling of the Opéra Comique | ca. 1857 | Drawing | Met |
| Gustave Moreau | Sphinx in a Grotto (Poet, King and Warrior) | 1887–1888 | Drawing | Met |
| Gustave Moreau | Allegory of Vices | 1840–98 | Drawing | Met |
| Gustave Moreau | Saint Cecilia | ca. 1890–95 | Drawing | Met |
| Gustave Boulanger | Figure of a Man Standing | 19th century | Drawing | Met |
| Gustave Boulanger | Portrait of Woman and Three Children | 1852 | Drawing | Met |
| Gustave Boulanger | Arab Woman | 1845–88 | Drawing | Met |
| Jules Joseph Lefebvre | Graziella | 1878 | Painting | Met |
| Karl Theodor von Piloty | Thusnelda at the Triumphal Entry of Germanicus into Rome | ca. 1875 | Painting | Met |
| Karl Theodor von Piloty | The Dead Wallenstein Being Carried Away by Soldiers | 1871 | Drawing | Met |
| Thomas Hart Benton | All on Hobbies, Gee Up, Gee Ho! | 1838 | Met | |
| Léon Cogniet | The Prix de Rome Winners of 1817: Léon Cogniet, Achille Michallon and Antoine Garnaud | 1817 | Drawing | Met |
| Léon Cogniet | Tintoretto at His Daughter's Deathbed | after 1843 | Met | |
| Léon Cogniet | George Washington | ca. 1850 | Met | |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Atalanta and Meleager | ca. 1616 | Painting | Met |
| William Merritt Chase | Edward Guthrie Kennedy | ca. 1895 | Painting | Met |
| William Merritt Chase | Fish | by 1910 | Painting | Met |
| Jean-Baptiste Regnault | A Member of the Institute | 1798 | Drawing | Met |
| Antoine-Jean Gros | A Man and a Woman Embracing | Drawing | Met |
Section B — Coverage: top artists, how their Met works are split
| Artist | Met works (cataloged) | On view | In storage | % on view |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacques-Louis David | 35 | 3 | 32 | 9% |
| Jean-Léon Gérôme | 14 | 1 | 13 | 7% |
| Jules Joseph Lefebvre | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0% |
| Alexandre Cabanel | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% |
| Léon Cogniet | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% |
| Fernand Cormon | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0% |
| William-Adolphe Bouguereau | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% |
| William Merritt Chase | 14 | 4 | 10 | 29% |
| Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| Paul Delaroche | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| Karl Theodor von Piloty | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0% |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | 50 | 8 | 42 | 16% |
| Thomas Couture | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% |
| Charles Gleyre | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0% |
| Antoine-Jean Gros | 9 | 1 | 8 | 11% |
| Thomas Hart Benton | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0% |
| Gustave Boulanger | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| Jean-Baptiste Regnault | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0% |
| Carlo Maratti | 50 | 1 | 49 | 2% |
| Auguste Rodin | 50 | 13 | 37 | 26% |
| Carolus-Duran | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33% |
| Wilhelm von Schadow | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | 50 | 16 | 34 | 32% |
| Peter Paul Rubens | 50 | 10 | 40 | 20% |
| Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| Isidore Pils | 50 | 0 | 50 | 0% |
| Luc Olivier Merson | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| Gustave Moreau | 12 | 2 | 10 | 17% |
| Abraham Bloemaert | 40 | 1 | 39 | 3% |
| Horace Vernet | 37 | 1 | 36 | 3% |
Section C — Highlights currently not on view
Met-flagged highlights that aren't on display right now.
| Artist | Work | Date | Type | Met link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacques-Louis David | Leonidas at Thermopylae | ca. 1812–13 | Drawing | Met |
| Jean-Léon Gérôme | Bashi-Bazouk | 1868–69 | Painting | Met |
| William Merritt Chase | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | 1885 | Painting | Met |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine) | 1818 | Drawing | Met |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | Madame Félix Gallois | 1852 | Drawing | Met |
| Auguste Rodin | Les cathédrales de France | 1914 | Met | |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Satire on Art Criticism | 1644 | Drawing | Met |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Cottage among Trees | ca. 1650 | Drawing | Met |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci | 1634–35 | Drawing | Met |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses | 1653 | Met | |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | L'œuvre complet de Rembrandt : catalogue raisonné de toutes les eaux-fortes du maître et de ses peintures | 1859–1861 | Met | |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Reclining Female Nude | 1658 | Met | |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood | 1644 | Drawing | Met |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume | 1617 | Drawing | Met |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Bust of Pseudo-Seneca | 1600–1626 | Drawing | Met |
| Charles Le Brun | Explication des tableaux de la galerie de Versailles, et de ses deux sallons | 1687 | Met | |
| James McNeill Whistler | Note in Pink and Brown | ca. 1880 | Drawing | Met |
| James McNeill Whistler | Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea) | 1878 | Met | |
| James McNeill Whistler | The Yellow Room | ca. 1883–84 | Watercolor | Met |
| James McNeill Whistler | Lady in Gray | ca. 1883 | Watercolor | Met |
| Benjamin West | Maternity | 1784 | Drawing | Met |
| James McNeill Whistler | The Doorway | 1879–80 | Met | |
| Michelangelo Buonarroti | Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso) | ca. 1510–11 | Drawing | Met |
| Michelangelo Buonarroti | Orazione fvnerale di M. Benedetto Varchi fatta, e recitata da lui pubblicamente nell'essequie di Michelagnolo Bvonarroti in Firenze, nella chiesa di San Lorenzo | 1564 | Met | |
| Thomas Eakins | The Pathetic Song | 1881 | Watercolor | Met |
| Thomas Eakins | Two Pupils in Greek Dress | 1883 | Photograph | Met |
| Thomas Eakins | [Thomas Eakins and John Laurie Wallace on a Beach] | ca. 1883 | Photograph | Met |
| Thomas Eakins | The Gross Clinic | 1875–76 | Watercolor | Met |
| Thomas Eakins | John Biglin in a Single Scull | ca. 1873 | Watercolor | Met |
| Thomas Eakins | The Dancing Lesson | 1878 | Watercolor | Met |
Sources
- Getty Vocabularies (ULAN) — Union List of Artist Names — biographical and relational data for artists, architects, designers, and other cultural producers.
- Wikimedia Pageviews API — Monthly pageviews per Wikipedia article, last 24 months.
- MediaWiki Revisions API — Wikipedia article edit history (timestamps) and interwiki language link counts.
- Met Open Access — The Metropolitan Museum of Art's public-domain collection metadata.
- Met Collection API — Per-object metadata including current gallery / on-view status.