Art, literature & history
Friendship, Useless Friendship, and Hate
1774/1775
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- 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.)
- Collection no.
- 1987.29.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles-Nicolas Cochin II. Friendship, Useless Friendship, and Hate. Charles-Nicolas Cochin II; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles-Nicolas_Cochin_II,_Friendship,_Useless_Friendship,_and_Hate,_1774-1775,_NGA_69978.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Friendship, Useless Friendship, and Hate — Charles-Nicolas Cochin II. 1774/1775.
Medium: red chalk with touches of black chalk on laid paper, laid down, with border lines drawn by the artist.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): 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.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1987.29.3. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.