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Domenico Fetti

The Parable of the Mote and the Beam

ca. 1619
Oil on wood
61.3 × 44.1 cm (24.1 × 17.4 in)

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● On view now — Gallery 620

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

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