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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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Dalend mannelijk naakt, met wapperende mantel

Dalend mannelijk naakt, met wapperende mantel

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Dancing maenad (after a Greek vase)

Dancing maenad (after a Greek vase)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Dancing woman or nymph

Dancing woman or nymph

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Dancing woman, seen from her back

Dancing woman, seen from her back

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De aanbidding van Christus door één van de 3 koningen

De aanbidding van Christus door één van de 3 koningen

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De drie engelen bij Abraham

De drie engelen bij Abraham

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De engel verdijft Adam en Eva uit h. paradijs

De engel verdijft Adam en Eva uit h. paradijs

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De engel verdrijft Adam en Eva uit het paradijs

De engel verdrijft Adam en Eva uit het paradijs

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De engel verdrijft Adam en Eva uit het paradijs

De engel verdrijft Adam en Eva uit het paradijs

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De H. Catharina, knielend: met detail v.h. hoofd

De H. Catharina, knielend: met detail v.h. hoofd

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De H. Catharina, met wiel

De H. Catharina, met wiel

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De Judaskus

De Judaskus

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De kop van een man met hoed: en profil, naar links

De kop van een man met hoed: en profil, naar links

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De linkerhand van Humbert, rustend op een ondergrond

De linkerhand van Humbert, rustend op een ondergrond

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De Mozes van Michelangelo

De Mozes van Michelangelo

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De Mozes van Michelangelo

De Mozes van Michelangelo

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De Mozes van Michelangelo: sculptuur

De Mozes van Michelangelo: sculptuur

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De spieren van een bovenbeen en knie

De spieren van een bovenbeen en knie

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De val van Icarus

De val van Icarus

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De verzoeking van Christus

De verzoeking van Christus

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De verzoeking van Christus

De verzoeking van Christus

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De verzoeking van Christus

De verzoeking van Christus

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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De verzoeking van Christus: bas-reliëf

De verzoeking van Christus: bas-reliëf

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Delilah met de krachteloze Samson

Delilah met de krachteloze Samson

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Detail from The deposition, fresco in the Trinità del Monte in Rome

Detail from The deposition, fresco in the Trinità del Monte in Rome

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Detail v. ‘De bekering van Paulus’

Detail v. ‘De bekering van Paulus’

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Devote non: halffiguur, driekwart naar rechts

Devote non: halffiguur, driekwart naar rechts

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Div. handen e.a. details

Div. handen e.a. details

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Diverse aanzichten van een slang, met bijschriften

Diverse aanzichten van een slang, met bijschriften

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Diverse anatomische tekeningen: skelet, spieren, etc

Diverse anatomische tekeningen: skelet, spieren, etc

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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