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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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Man posing as the Apollo Belvedere, seen on his back

Man posing as the Apollo Belvedere, seen on his back

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Man spreekt anderen toe, achter hem zit iemand

Man spreekt anderen toe, achter hem zit iemand

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Man zich vastklampend aan steigerend paard

Man zich vastklampend aan steigerend paard

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Man zittend op een verhoging 2

Man zittend op een verhoging 2

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Man zittend op een verhoging

Man zittend op een verhoging

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Man zittend op verhoging, handenarbeidend

Man zittend op verhoging, handenarbeidend

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Man, zich vastklampend aan steigerend paard

Man, zich vastklampend aan steigerend paard

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mannelijk naakt m. gespreide armen (Christus gekruisigd)

Mannelijk naakt m. gespreide armen (Christus gekruisigd)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mannelijk naakt, iets gebogen, met voet op een verhoging

Mannelijk naakt, iets gebogen, met voet op een verhoging

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mannelijk naakt, in doodsangst

Mannelijk naakt, in doodsangst

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mannelijk naakt, trekkend

Mannelijk naakt, trekkend

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mannelijke naaktfiguur, zittend

Mannelijke naaktfiguur, zittend

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mannelijke rugfiguur: detail v.h. ‘Laatste Oordeel’

Mannelijke rugfiguur: detail v.h. ‘Laatste Oordeel’

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mannenhoofd, ter maskering

Mannenhoofd, ter maskering

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mannenkop, met bakkebaarden en knevel, omhoogkijkend

Mannenkop, met bakkebaarden en knevel, omhoogkijkend

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mannenkop, omhoogkijkend, driekwart naar links gewend

Mannenkop, omhoogkijkend, driekwart naar links gewend

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

Mannenkop

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Maria Magdalena: staande vrouw die haar haar vastpakt

Maria Magdalena: staande vrouw die haar haar vastpakt

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Maria met kind, en de Heilige Geest als duif

Maria met kind, en de Heilige Geest als duif

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Marsyas and Olympus

Marsyas and Olympus

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Marsyas bound to a tree

Marsyas bound to a tree

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mary with the Christ-child in the clouds

Mary with the Christ-child in the clouds

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Medea and Apsyrthus

Medea and Apsyrthus

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

Meleager

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mercurius diéén schaap op zijn schouders draagt

Mercurius diéén schaap op zijn schouders draagt

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Michiel Adr. de Ruyter: en face en en profil: sculptuur

Michiel Adr. de Ruyter: en face en en profil: sculptuur

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mietje Brinkman, zittend in leunstoel

Mietje Brinkman, zittend in leunstoel

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mietje Brinkman: à trois quarts, leunend op de hand

Mietje Brinkman: à trois quarts, leunend op de hand

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Mietje Brinkman: en profil naar rechts

Mietje Brinkman: en profil naar rechts

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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