Three Boys Save the Despairing Pamina from Suicide

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Artist: Moritz von Schwind (Austrian, Vienna 1804–1871 Munich)
Date: 1864
Medium: Pen and black ink with watercolor
Dimensions: 10 13/16 x 20 7/8 in. (27.5 x 53 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Karen B. Cohen, Mary Oenslager, and Edward Pearce Casey Funds, 2003
Accession no.: 2003.518

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Moritz von Schwind
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Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011856
Der Hundefreund (The Dog's Friend)
Moritz von Schwind
mid-19th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018502
Studies of Imaginary Woodland Creatures and Other Figures
Moritz von Schwind
mid-19th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022645
The soprano Karoline Hetzenecker in the role of Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito by W.A. Mozart
Moritz von Schwind
ca. 1848 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022929

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.