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David Humbert de Superville
David Humbert de Superville

David Humbert de Superville

Dutch, 1770-1849
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David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville was a Dutch artist and art scholar. He was a draughtsman, lithographer, etcher, and portrait painter, and also wrote treatises on art, including the influential work Essai sur les signes inconditionnels dans l'art (Leiden, 1827). His 1815 painting of the jurist and statesman Johan Melchior Kemper is now part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

His 1801 etching Allegory may have been a direct visual inspiration for Paul Gauguin's Spirit of the Dead Watching. Although no direct connection has been made, de Superville was cited by Albert Aurier as one of the forerunners of Symbolist painting and de Superville's book Unconditional Signs in Art (1827–32) was widely known to that group.

A portrait of Humbert de Superville uit 1848, painted by Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet, is now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The biography David Pierre Giottin Humbert de Superville, 1770-1849 by Cornelia Magdalena de Haas was published by A.W. Sijthoff in Leiden in 1941. In 1988, an exhibition of Humbert de Superville's work was held at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier (France) and at the Institut Néerlandais in Paris.

D.P.G. Humbert de Superville was a son of Jean Humbert, a Dutch painter of Swiss and French extraction. His brother, military engineer Jean Emile Humbert, is credited with rediscovering the lost city of Carthage. Humbert de Superville's assumed name of Giottino was originally a nickname he was given in Italy because his work showed similarities with the Italian master Giotto. He also took the last name de Superville after his grandmother Emilie de Superville, daughter of the eminent French Calvinist theologian Daniel de Superville, who had fled to the Dutch republic in 1685.

He left the Netherlands for Rome from 1789 and lived there until 1800, when the Papal State was restored and Humbert de Superville was forced to leave the city because he had supported the 1798 occupation of Rome by French revolutionary troops. In 1812 he settled in the Dutch town of Leiden and became a lecturer at the University of Leiden. He served as head of the Leiden drawing academy Ars Aemula Naturae (1814–1823) and as first director of the Leiden cabinet of prints, drawings and plaster statues (1825–1849).

Humbert de Superville married Elisabeth Paradijs in 1816. They had two sons, one of whom died at a very young age; the other son died of typhoid at the age of 24.

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Kunstenaar a.h. werk, zittend op bankje

Kunstenaar a.h. werk, zittend op bankje

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Landkaart van Nova Scotia en de St. Laurens Baai

Landkaart van Nova Scotia en de St. Laurens Baai

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Le Géant de la Côte’ represented as a skeleton

Le Géant de la Côte’ represented as a skeleton

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Le Géant de la Côte.

Le Géant de la Côte.

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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‘Le Géant de la Côte’: views from all sides

‘Le Géant de la Côte’: views from all sides

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Leeuwenkop, met opengesperde muil

Leeuwenkop, met opengesperde muil

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Leeuwenkop

Leeuwenkop

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Left leg, after an antique statue

Left leg, after an antique statue

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Lenora met de ridder: ill. bij een gedicht van Burger

Lenora met de ridder: ill. bij een gedicht van Burger

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Leunende figuur 2x: de één gekleed, de ander naakt

Leunende figuur 2x: de één gekleed, de ander naakt

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Leunende, half voorover gebogen vrouw: rugfiguur

Leunende, half voorover gebogen vrouw: rugfiguur

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Lezende vrouw, zittend op een poef, naar rechts gewend

Lezende vrouw, zittend op een poef, naar rechts gewend

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Liggend vrouwelijk naakt: rechterarm tweemaal getekend

Liggend vrouwelijk naakt: rechterarm tweemaal getekend

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Liggende figuur, in lange mantel, op de voeten gezien

Liggende figuur, in lange mantel, op de voeten gezien

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Liggende hond

Liggende hond

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Liggende kat, bij bord op een tafelblad

Liggende kat, bij bord op een tafelblad

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Liggende man onder laken of deken: ‘Grimaces…’

Liggende man onder laken of deken: ‘Grimaces…’

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Liggende vrouw in mantel of deken, met opgeheven hand

Liggende vrouw in mantel of deken, met opgeheven hand

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Liggende vrouwenfiguur in lang gewaad, op rustbank

Liggende vrouwenfiguur in lang gewaad, op rustbank

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Linkerhand met gespreide vingers

Linkerhand met gespreide vingers

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Lion’s head

Lion’s head

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Lopend mannelijk naakt, met geheven arm

Lopend mannelijk naakt, met geheven arm

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Lopende man met een mand onder de arm

Lopende man met een mand onder de arm

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Lucas van Leyden aan het werk

Lucas van Leyden aan het werk

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Lying deer

Lying deer

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Lying hero or divinity, after the west pediment of the Parthenon, possibly Ilissos

Lying hero or divinity, after the west pediment of the Parthenon, possibly Ilissos

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Madonna met kind: naar Parmigianino

Madonna met kind: naar Parmigianino

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Man grijpt kind van vrouw

Man grijpt kind van vrouw

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Man in boom

Man in boom

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Man met spade tot de knieën in het water

Man met spade tot de knieën in het water

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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