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Alessandro Magnasco

The Tame Magpie

ca. 1707–8
Oil on canvas
63.5 × 74.9 cm (25 × 29.5 in)

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● On view now — Gallery 643

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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