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Landscape with Large Boulders in Water
attributed to Adriaen Honich, c. 1667 - c. 1683
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-1964-341
- Dimensionsheight 156 mm x width 214 mm
- Physical characteristicspen and brown ink, with grey wash, over traces of black chalk; fragments of framing line in black ink
Identification
Title(s)
Landscape with Large Boulders in Water
Object type
Object number
RP-T-1964-341
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Creation
Creation
draughtsman: attributed to Adriaen Honich, Rome (possibly)
Dating
c. 1667 - c. 1683
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Material and technique
Physical description
pen and brown ink, with grey wash, over traces of black chalk; fragments of framing line in black ink
Dimensions
height 156 mm x width 214 mm
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Provenance
…; first recorded in the museum, 1964
Remarks
Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
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Adriaen Honich (attributed to)
Landscape with Large Boulders in Water
? Rome, c. 1667 - c. 1683
Inscriptions
inscribed on verso, in pencil: upper left, Salvator Rosa; left, 6; centre, possibly by a framer (mostly effaced), […] off dark border / […]; lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand (partially concealed by edge of mount), L [?] 379 10 [?] HL
stamped on verso: lower centre, with the mark of the museum (L. 2228)
Technical notes
watermark: six-pointed star within a circle, surmounted by letter ‘V’; similar to Heawood, no. 3883 (Rome: 1646)
Condition
Hole in lower right corner
Provenance
…; first recorded in the museum, 1964
Object number: RP-T-1964-341
Entry
The present drawing was inventoried as by Adriaen Honich, without any indication as to its provenance. Although executed in a bolder, sketchier manner and on cream rather than blue paper, the present sheet resembles a drawing in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (inv. no. 15008),1M. Roethlisberger, ‘À la recherche d’Adriaen Honich’, Bulletin de la Galerie Nationale du Canada 4 (1964), pp. 14-17 (figs. 1, 1a). which bears an old attribution to Lossenbruy, Honich’s bent-name. The parallel hatching in pen to shade the boulders and to indicate the water is especially comparable.
As Roethlisberger pointed out, the Ottawa drawing copies the landscape in a painted Mountain Landscape by Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) in the Southampton City Art Gallery (inv. no. 1/1961).2Ibid., fig. 2. That artist’s name is also inscribed on the verso of the present drawing, and a prototype by Rosa may well have inspired the present sheet. Its rocks and trees are of the same type as in the painting in Southampton, and a related, though somewhat more dramatic formula is found in Rosa’s painted Romantic Landscape with Mercur and Argus in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (inv. no. 2883-4). Though no fully matching motif has yet been identified, that a model by Rosa might also lie behind the present composition would support the attribution to Honich, who is known to have copied him.
With Honich copying Brueghel, an inscription ‘d’après Salvator Rosa’ that was written on the old lining paper is misleading.3According to RMA, inventory book; there also was a price noted, probably in an eighteenth-century hand (‘1-5-0’).
Annemarie Stefes, 2019
Citation
A. Stefes, 2019, 'attributed to Adriaen Honich, Landscape with Large Boulders in Water, Rome, c. 1667 - c. 1683', in J. Turner (ed.), (under construction) Drawings 2, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200140468
(accessed 17 December 2025 09:23:02).Footnotes
- 1M. Roethlisberger, ‘À la recherche d’Adriaen Honich’, Bulletin de la Galerie Nationale du Canada 4 (1964), pp. 14-17 (figs. 1, 1a).
- 2Ibid., fig. 2.
- 3According to RMA, inventory book; there also was a price noted, probably in an eighteenth-century hand (‘1-5-0’).