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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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Staande man met de hand aan een helmstok

Staande man met de hand aan een helmstok

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande man met flambard en in lange jas

Staande man met flambard en in lange jas

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande man met vaarboom

Staande man met vaarboom

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande man, de armen over elkaar

Staande man, de armen over elkaar

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande man, in de weer

Staande man, in de weer

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande man

Staande man

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande naakte jongeling

Staande naakte jongeling

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande naakte krijger met schild en zwaard: rugfiguur

Staande naakte krijger met schild en zwaard: rugfiguur

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande naakte man, leunend: enige vage krabbels

Staande naakte man, leunend: enige vage krabbels

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande naakte man

Staande naakte man

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande vrouw in lang gewaad met appel, wellicht Ceres

Staande vrouw in lang gewaad met appel, wellicht Ceres

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande vrouw in lang gewaad: achterover leunend

Staande vrouw in lang gewaad: achterover leunend

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande vrouw met kannetje, van terzijde

Staande vrouw met kannetje, van terzijde

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande vrouw met schaaltje

Staande vrouw met schaaltje

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande vrouw, leunend op de elleboog

Staande vrouw, leunend op de elleboog

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande vrouw, leunend op een mand

Staande vrouw, leunend op een mand

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande, rustende, gevleugelde figuur

Staande, rustende, gevleugelde figuur

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Staande, verrezen Christus met kruis

Staande, verrezen Christus met kruis

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Stam met kronkelende slang

Stam met kronkelende slang

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Standing Bacchus with grapes

Standing Bacchus with grapes

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Standing Dionysos Sardanapalus, ‘Bacchus Indien’

Standing Dionysos Sardanapalus, ‘Bacchus Indien’

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Standing lion in a threatening pose, three times repeated in different colours

Standing lion in a threatening pose, three times repeated in different colours

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Standing Mercury

Standing Mercury

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Standing youth

Standing youth

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Statue from Easter Island

Statue from Easter Island

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Statue of the god Iswara

Statue of the god Iswara

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Steigerend paard (doortrek)

Steigerend paard (doortrek)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Strijd tussen engel en duivel om de ziel v.e. overledene

Strijd tussen engel en duivel om de ziel v.e. overledene

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Strik met toegevoegd vrouwenhoofd

Strik met toegevoegd vrouwenhoofd

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Study for Christ on the cross, covered with draperies

Study for Christ on the cross, covered with draperies

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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