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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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Oog, neus en kin v. Franciscus Hemsterhuys

Oog, neus en kin v. Franciscus Hemsterhuys

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Op de rug liggende vrouw, half opgericht

Op de rug liggende vrouw, half opgericht

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Op een bank liggende jonge vrouw, met hond

Op een bank liggende jonge vrouw, met hond

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Opgeheven arm met stok in de hand: karikaturaal gezicht

Opgeheven arm met stok in de hand: karikaturaal gezicht

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Opgerichte, verschrikte leeuw: met menselijke trekken

Opgerichte, verschrikte leeuw: met menselijke trekken

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Opspringende tijger

Opspringende tijger

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Orestes retrieving Hermione from Menelaos

Orestes retrieving Hermione from Menelaos

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Ornament van de drie gratieën met schaal, op een console

Ornament van de drie gratieën met schaal, op een console

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

Pegasus

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

Petrus

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Phaedra, getourmenteerde vrouw.

Phaedra, getourmenteerde vrouw.

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Phaedra, getourmenteerde vrouw

Phaedra, getourmenteerde vrouw

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Plooival op twee benen

Plooival op twee benen

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Pope Paul III, sculpture on his tomb in St. Peter’s

Pope Paul III, sculpture on his tomb in St. Peter’s

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Portrait of 4 year old Marie Danville, bust in profile to the left

Portrait of 4 year old Marie Danville, bust in profile to the left

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Portrait of Filippo Larivera, bust turned to the left

Portrait of Filippo Larivera, bust turned to the left

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Portrait of Marco F. Gagliuffi

Portrait of Marco F. Gagliuffi

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Portrait of Mietje Brinkman, seen in profile

Portrait of Mietje Brinkman, seen in profile

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Portrait of the theologian Philippus Melanchthon (1497-1560)

Portrait of the theologian Philippus Melanchthon (1497-1560)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Portret van een staande huzaar

Portret van een staande huzaar

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Profil van een vrouw: waarschijnlijk Mietje Brinkman

Profil van een vrouw: waarschijnlijk Mietje Brinkman

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Rape of woman by a satyr

Rape of woman by a satyr

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Rechter-hand en -onderarm, alsof kloppend op een deur

Rechter-hand en -onderarm, alsof kloppend op een deur

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Rechterhand: duim en wijsvinger op elkaar.

Rechterhand: duim en wijsvinger op elkaar.

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Rechterhand: duim en wijsvinger op elkaar

Rechterhand: duim en wijsvinger op elkaar

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Relief from a sarcophagus with the nine Muses, intended by Humbert as decoration of a lbrary

Relief from a sarcophagus with the nine Muses, intended by Humbert as decoration of a lbrary

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Resting man, lying on his back, a hat over his groin

Resting man, lying on his back, a hat over his groin

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Right half of the head of the Hera Ludovisi

Right half of the head of the Hera Ludovisi

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Right half of the head of the Pallas Velletri

Right half of the head of the Pallas Velletri

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Right hand with fingers spread

Right hand with fingers spread

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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