Friendship, Useless Friendship, and Hate

1774/1775

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

Artist, French, 1715 - 1790

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1987.29.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64539643

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