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| Francesco Montemezzano Portrait of a Woman 16th century Acquired as by Veronese |
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| Spanish painter Head of a Man mid-17th century or later Acquired as by Velázquez |
In 1915 Lousine Havemeyer composed Sixteen to Sixty, her.art-collecting memoirs. The book was published in 1930, shortly after the author's death. Simultaneously, her art collection was being cataloged in its new home at the Metropolitan Museum. Mrs. Havemeyer never needed to discover what the museum found out about the true histories of the objects grouped together here. She and her husband believed that "conviction" was a collector's most important characteristic. They had a fondness for searching out European art in the hands of private individuals, believing that this brought them nearer to the source. Alas, several of their independent collecting coups are now only accorded meager black-and-white reference photographs like these at the Met, and forever tagged NOT ON DISPLAY.
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| French sculptors Bust of an Angel Carved limestone Acquired as early Renaissance The body is a genuine 13th-century fragment. The head is late 19th or early 20th-century |
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| French painter Orpheus & Eurydice third quarter of 17th century Acquired as by Poussin |
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| Abraham van Diepenbeeck Saint Cecilia 17th century Acquired as by Rubens |
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| Italian forger Portrait of a Man 18th century Acquired as by Goya |
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| French forger Portrait drawing of a Woman drawing 19th century Acquired as by Ingres |
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| French forger Spring Flowers c. 1855-60 Acquired as by Courbet |
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| French forger Apples second half of the 19th century Acquired as by Courbet |
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| British forger Man with a Mask drawing early 20th century Acquired as by Beardsley |