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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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Study on perspective (diagram)

Study on perspective (diagram)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Study on perspective, circle projected on a peristyle and the portal of a church

Study on perspective, circle projected on a peristyle and the portal of a church

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Stumpers: fresco Campo Santo (Pisa)

Stumpers: fresco Campo Santo (Pisa)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Subiaco: gebouwencomplex in de bergen

Subiaco: gebouwencomplex in de bergen

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Susanne C. C. Labrousse: borstbeeld driekw. naar rechts

Susanne C. C. Labrousse: borstbeeld driekw. naar rechts

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The abduction of Cassandra, the heads repeated

The abduction of Cassandra, the heads repeated

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The arms of the Venus de’ Medici

The arms of the Venus de’ Medici

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The Belvedere Antonous, and a man bound to a wheel, his head repeated

The Belvedere Antonous, and a man bound to a wheel, his head repeated

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The circumcision of Christ

The circumcision of Christ

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The construction of a spiral staircase

The construction of a spiral staircase

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The evangelist Mark

The evangelist Mark

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The expulsion from Paradise, after a fresco in the Camposanto at Pisa

The expulsion from Paradise, after a fresco in the Camposanto at Pisa

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The head of St. Michael, detail from The Madonna with the scales

The head of St. Michael, detail from The Madonna with the scales

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The heads of a man and two women, showing ascending, horizontal and descending lines, in combination with colours

The heads of a man and two women, showing ascending, horizontal and descending lines, in combination with colours

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The Hercules Farnese

The Hercules Farnese

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The Lion’s gate in Mycene

The Lion’s gate in Mycene

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The perception of several geomtric forms

The perception of several geomtric forms

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The range of vision represented by a cone

The range of vision represented by a cone

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The so-called orante (praying youth) from Berlin, flanked by busts of Lycurgus and Socrates

The so-called orante (praying youth) from Berlin, flanked by busts of Lycurgus and Socrates

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The so-called orante (praying youth) from Berlin

The so-called orante (praying youth) from Berlin

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The suicide of Ajax

The suicide of Ajax

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The Torso Belvedere

The Torso Belvedere

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The Torso Belvedere, seen from aside

The Torso Belvedere, seen from aside

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The Torso Belvedere, three quarter view

The Torso Belvedere, three quarter view

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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The Torso Belvedere

The Torso Belvedere

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Theophane and Neptune disguised as a ram

Theophane and Neptune disguised as a ram

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Theseus en de Minotaurus

Theseus en de Minotaurus

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Theseus fighting the brigand Sinis (after a Greek vase)

Theseus fighting the brigand Sinis (after a Greek vase)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Theseus honoured after his victory over the Minotaur

Theseus honoured after his victory over the Minotaur

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Three sitting figures, Orestes, Apollo and an unidentifiable youth

Three sitting figures, Orestes, Apollo and an unidentifiable youth

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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