Three Boys Save the Despairing Pamina from Suicide

1864

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and black ink with watercolor
Dimensions: 10 13/16 x 20 7/8 in. (27.5 x 53 cm)
Collection no.: 2003.518
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Moritz von Schwind. Three Boys Save the Despairing Pamina from Suicide. Moritz von Schwind; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Karen B. Cohen, Mary Oenslager, and Edward Pearce Casey Funds, 2003. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Three Boys Save the Despairing Pamina from Suicide — Moritz von Schwind. 1864.

Medium: Pen and black ink with watercolor. Dimensions: 10 13/16 x 20 7/8 in. (27.5 x 53 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Karen B. Cohen, Mary Oenslager, and Edward Pearce Casey Funds, 2003.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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