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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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Rome: 2 gezichten op anonieme gebouwen

Rome: 2 gezichten op anonieme gebouwen

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Rome: twee gezichten op anonieme gebouwen

Rome: twee gezichten op anonieme gebouwen

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Rotsachtig berglandschap: ‘pour Golgotha’

Rotsachtig berglandschap: ‘pour Golgotha’

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Rotsen Sinaï en Horeb

Rotsen Sinaï en Horeb

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Rotslandschap met bijschrift: ‘…sans doute Golgotha.’

Rotslandschap met bijschrift: ‘…sans doute Golgotha.’

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Rotstempel of begraafplaats

Rotstempel of begraafplaats

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Ruïne temidden van geboomte

Ruïne temidden van geboomte

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Samson verwoest de zuilen van de tempel.

Samson verwoest de zuilen van de tempel.

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Samson verwoest de zuilen van de tempel

Samson verwoest de zuilen van de tempel

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Satyr met kromstaf, bedreigd door een koppige bok

Satyr met kromstaf, bedreigd door een koppige bok

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Scheefstaande rugfiguur, steunend op de l.-arm: kuit

Scheefstaande rugfiguur, steunend op de l.-arm: kuit

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Schets van een monster

Schets van een monster

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Schrijdende naakte man, de armen gespreid

Schrijdende naakte man, de armen gespreid

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Self-portrait of the artist D.P.G. Humbert de Superville at a young age, leaning against a table and writing

Self-portrait of the artist D.P.G. Humbert de Superville at a young age, leaning against a table and writing

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Several Egyptian objects, details of a fresco by Raphael and Roman furniture

Several Egyptian objects, details of a fresco by Raphael and Roman furniture

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Shadows on the head of Praxiteles’ Hermes from Olympia

Shadows on the head of Praxiteles’ Hermes from Olympia

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Soldier with sword and shield

Soldier with sword and shield

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Sprekende man met mantel en zwaard

Sprekende man met mantel en zwaard

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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St. Michael vertrapt de duivel

St. Michael vertrapt de duivel

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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St. Peter, fresco from the Brancacci chapel

St. Peter, fresco from the Brancacci chapel

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staand jongetje

Staand jongetje

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staand mannelijk naakt, frontaal: met proportielijnen

Staand mannelijk naakt, frontaal: met proportielijnen

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

Staand mannelijk naakt, met geheven arm

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

Staand mannelijk naakt, met geheven arm

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

Staand mannelijk naakt, met geheven arm

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staand mannelijk naakt: hand

Staand mannelijk naakt: hand

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staand naakt e.a. schetsen

Staand naakt e.a. schetsen

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande jongeling met staf, zich omwendend

Staande jongeling met staf, zich omwendend

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande krijger in klassieke wapenrusting: met krabbels

Staande krijger in klassieke wapenrusting: met krabbels

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande man die zich naar terzijde buigt

Staande man die zich naar terzijde buigt

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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