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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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Boomgroep in het water

Boomgroep in het water

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Borstbeeld en face v.e. naakte man, leunend op een arm

Borstbeeld en face v.e. naakte man, leunend op een arm

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Borstbeeld van een onbekende man met hoed

Borstbeeld van een onbekende man met hoed

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

Bovenbeen

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Bovenlichaam v. naakte man, armen gespreid

Bovenlichaam v. naakte man, armen gespreid

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Bovenlichaam v.e. de armen spreidende man

Bovenlichaam v.e. de armen spreidende man

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Bovenlichaam van een naakte man, met gestrekte r.-arm

Bovenlichaam van een naakte man, met gestrekte r.-arm

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Bovenlijf v.e. man met gestrekte arm

Bovenlijf v.e. man met gestrekte arm

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Bovenlijf van mannelijk naakt

Bovenlijf van mannelijk naakt

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Boy leaning sideways

Boy leaning sideways

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Bronzen hek (ontwerp Stadhuis te Amsterdam)

Bronzen hek (ontwerp Stadhuis te Amsterdam)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Brunelleschi (zgn. Giotto)

Brunelleschi (zgn. Giotto)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Buste v.e. engel met nimbus achter een lezenaar, en face

Buste v.e. engel met nimbus achter een lezenaar, en face

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Castel Gandolfo, bij Rome

Castel Gandolfo, bij Rome

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Cat with collar

Cat with collar

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Cheiron and Achilles

Cheiron and Achilles

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Christ in Limbo

Christ in Limbo

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Christus aan het kruis

Christus aan het kruis

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Christus aan het kruis

Christus aan het kruis

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Christus en de overspelige vrouw

Christus en de overspelige vrouw

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Christus in transfiguratie

Christus in transfiguratie

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Christus Salvator Mundi

Christus Salvator Mundi

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Christus: uit ‘De Opstanding van Christus’

Christus: uit ‘De Opstanding van Christus’

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

Christusfiguur

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Christusfiguur: uit de ‘Transfiguratie’

Christusfiguur: uit de ‘Transfiguratie’

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Christuskop en face

Christuskop en face

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
Religion
Civilis et Veleda

Civilis et Veleda

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Construction of a gothic tympanum

Construction of a gothic tympanum

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Cupid and Psyche, the Borghese dancers and part of another relief

Cupid and Psyche, the Borghese dancers and part of another relief

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Cyclopian building

Cyclopian building

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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