The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of January 29, 2023

Portrait of a Woman

1580–1600

Kilian Koch

(German)

Germany, Nuremberg, 16th century

Kelheim stone (fine-grained limestone)

Diameter: 3.6 cm (1 7/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1929.902

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

inscription: DAS IST MEIN GROESTE PEIN DAS ICH NIT PIN DO ICH GERN WOLT SEIN ALT XVI IOR (It is my greatest sorrow that I am not, though I gladly would be, sixteen years old.)

Kilian Koch

worked in Nüremburg.
Provenance
A. S. Drey (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1929.
Exhibition history

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1929.902