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Canaletto

A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon

Oil on canvas
50.8 × 67.6 cm (20 × 26.6 in)

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● On view now — Gallery 644

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

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