Moneyball — underexhibited works
Met Museum works worth a second look that aren't currently on view.
2026-11-08T05:31:24+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 | The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons ⭐ | 1787 | 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 |
| Jean-Paul Laurens | The Last Moments of Maximilian | 1884 | Met | |
| Léon Bonnat | Roman Girl at a Fountain | 1875 | Painting | Met |
| Léon Bonnat | John Taylor Johnston (1820–1893) | 1880 | Painting | Met |
| Léon Bonnat | An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child | 1869–70 | Painting | Met |
| Jules Joseph Lefebvre | Graziella | 1878 | 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 |
| Fernand Cormon | Crouching Woman | n.d. | Drawing | Met |
| Fernand Cormon | The Vanquishers of Salamis | 1889 | 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 | |
| Auguste Rodin | Les cathédrales de France ⭐ | 1914 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant | Judith | possibly ca. 1886 | Painting | Met |
| Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant | The Sultan's Tiger | Painting | Met | |
| Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant | Odalisque | Painting | Met | |
| Jean-Léon Gérôme | Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets) | 1884 or earlier | Painting | Met |
| Jean-Léon Gérôme | Pygmalion and Galatea | ca. 1890 | Painting | Met |
| Jean-Léon Gérôme | Tiger and Cubs | ca. 1884 | Painting | 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | Aretino in the Studio of Tintoretto | 1848 | Painting | Met |
| Charles Gleyre | The Mission of the Apostles, from "Illustrated London News" | October 30, 1865 | Met | |
| William Merritt Chase | Edward Guthrie Kennedy | ca. 1895 | Painting | Met |
| William Merritt Chase | Fish | by 1910 | Painting | Met |
| William Merritt Chase | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | 1885 | Painting | Met |
| Gustave Moreau | Sphinx in a Grotto (Poet, King and Warrior) | 1887–1888 | Drawing | Met |
| Gustave Moreau | Allegory of Vices | 1870s? | Drawing | Met |
| Gustave Moreau | Saint Cecilia | ca. 1890–95 | Drawing | Met |
| Paul Delaroche | Drapery Study for the Figure of the Dying Mary Magdalen | 1815–56 | Drawing | Met |
| Paul Delaroche | Study for a figure of Fame, from the Hémicycle des Beaux-Arts, École des Beaux-Arts | ca. 1837–41 | Drawing | Met |
| Paul Delaroche | Napoleon Crossing the Alps | 1851 | Met | |
| Carolus-Duran | Mrs. William Astor (Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, 1831–1908) | 1890 | Painting | Met |
Section B — Coverage: top artists, how their Met works are split
| Artist | Met works (cataloged) | On view | In storage | % on view |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jean-Paul Laurens | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0% |
| Jacques-Louis David | 36 | 3 | 33 | 8% |
| Léon Bonnat | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| Jean-Léon Gérôme | 15 | 4 | 11 | 27% |
| Jules Joseph Lefebvre | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0% |
| Alexandre Cabanel | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% |
| Léon Cogniet | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% |
| Fernand Cormon | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0% |
| William-Adolphe Bouguereau | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% |
| William Merritt Chase | 14 | 3 | 11 | 21% |
| Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| Paul Delaroche | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| Karl Theodor von Piloty | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0% |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | 50 | 9 | 41 | 18% |
| Charles Gleyre | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0% |
| Thomas Couture | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% |
| Antoine-Jean Gros | 9 | 1 | 8 | 11% |
| 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 | 13 | 37 | 26% |
| Peter Paul Rubens | 50 | 11 | 39 | 22% |
| 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 | 42 | 1 | 41 | 2% |
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 | The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons | 1787 | Drawing | Met |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | Madame Félix Gallois | 1852 | Drawing | Met |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine) | 1818 | Drawing | Met |
| Auguste Rodin | Les cathédrales de France | 1914 | Met | |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses | 1653 | Met | |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci | 1634–35 | Drawing | Met |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Cottage among Trees | ca. 1650 | Drawing | Met |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Reclining Female Nude | 1658 | Met | |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood | 1644 | Drawing | 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 | Satire on Art Criticism | 1644 | Drawing | Met |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Bust of Pseudo-Seneca | 1600–1626 | Drawing | Met |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume | 1617 | Drawing | Met |
| Charles Le Brun | Explication des tableaux de la galerie de Versailles, et de ses deux sallons | 1687 | Met | |
| James McNeill Whistler | The Yellow Room | ca. 1883–84 | Watercolor | Met |
| James McNeill Whistler | Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea) | 1878 | Met | |
| James McNeill Whistler | Nocturne: Palaces | 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 |
| Thomas Eakins | The Dancing Lesson | 1878 | 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 |
| Hendrick Goltzius | Phaeton, from "The Four Disgracers" | 1588 | Met | |
| Anthony van Dyck | Self-Portrait, from "The Iconography" | ca. 1640 | Met | |
| Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | Bacchus and Ariadne | ca. 1740 | Drawing | Met |
| Raphael | Lucretia | 1508–10 | Drawing | Met |
| Raphael | The Judgment of Paris: he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above. In the upper section the Sun in his chariot preceeded by Castor and Pollux on horseback, at lower right two river gods and a naiad above whom Jupiter, an eagle, Ganymede, Diana and another goddess | ca. 1510–20 | Met | |
| Annibale Carracci | Uffizio della Settimana Santa : colle rubriche volgari, argomenti de' Salmi, spiegazione delle cerimonie e misterj, con osservazioni, e riflessioni divote dell'abate Alessandro Mazzinelli | 1794 | Met | |
| Queen consort of Louis XVI Marie Antoinette | Marie Antoinette in a Park | ca. 1780–81 | Drawing | Met |
| Eugène Delacroix | Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters | 1832 | Drawing | Met |
| David II Teniers | Theatrvm pictorivm : in quo exhibentur ipsius manu delineatæ, eiusque curâ in æs incise picturæ, archetipæ Italicæ, quas ipse ser.mus Archdux in pinacothecam suam Bruxellis collegit | 1684 | 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.