Friendship, Useless Friendship, and Hate, 1774/1775

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series Title

L'Almanach iconologique

Medium

red chalk with touches of black chalk on laid paper, laid down, with border lines drawn by the artist

Dimensions

overall (

sheet): 12.7 x 7.9 cm (5 x 3 1/8 in.)
image (to border line): 10.7 x 6.4 cm (4 3/16 x 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1987.29.3

Artists / Makers

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II (artist) French, 1715 - 1790

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom in red chalk: L'Amitie; L'Amitie Inutile; la haine.; numbered in red chalk at top center: 4; across the top of the altar in red chalk: LONGE ET PROPE; in across the bottom: MORS ET VITA

Provenance

(Galerie Cailleux, Paris); acquired 1987 by the NGA.

Associated Names

Galerie Cailleux

Exhibition History

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 234-235, 290, no. 102b (color).

Bibliography

1877: Portalis, Baron Roger de. Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au 18e siècle. 2 parts in 4 vols. Paris, 1877, 1 (pt. 1): 123.

1880: Goncourt, Edmond, and Jules de Goncourt. L'art du dix-huitième siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1880-1884: 2:125.

1912: Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures de XVIIIe siècle. 6th ed., rev. and augmented by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col. 455.

1987: Michel, Christian. Charles-Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustré au XVIIIe siècle. Geneva, 1987: 314, no. 152p.