Landschap met grote rotsblokken in het water

toegeschreven aan Adriaen Honich, ca. 1667 - ca. 1683

  • Soort kunstwerktekening
  • ObjectnummerRP-T-1964-341
  • Afmetingenhoogte 156 mm x breedte 214 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenpen en bruine inkt, met penseel en grijze inkt, over sporen van zwart krijt; kaderlijnen in zwarte inkt

Ontdek verder

meer door Adriaen Honich

Gezicht op de grote waterval te Tivoli

toegeschreven aan Adriaen Honich, ca. 1667 - ca. 1683

Gezicht op de grote waterval te Tivoli

Gezicht op het interieur van het Colosseum, Rome

toegeschreven aan Adriaen Honich, ca. 1667 - ca. 1680

Gezicht op het interieur van het Colosseum, Rome

Gezicht op een stadje in de Tibervallei

Adriaen Honich, ca. 1663 - ca. 1665

Gezicht op een stadje in de Tibervallei

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’).