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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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Egyptian statue of a lion, profile view

Egyptian statue of a lion, profile view

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Egyptisch poortgebouw met trapopgang: grote steenblokken

Egyptisch poortgebouw met trapopgang: grote steenblokken

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Engel met het Mandylion

Engel met het Mandylion

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Engel met schild en zwaard

Engel met schild en zwaard

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Engel, halffiguur

Engel, halffiguur

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

Eva met de slang

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Eva: detail plafond Sixtijnse Kapel: met maatlijnen

Eva: detail plafond Sixtijnse Kapel: met maatlijnen

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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F. Hemsterhuys, borstbeeld naar links

F. Hemsterhuys, borstbeeld naar links

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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F. Hemsterhuys: hoofd en profil nr. links

F. Hemsterhuys: hoofd en profil nr. links

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Fabulous animal

Fabulous animal

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Faun trying to embrace a nymph or young boy

Faun trying to embrace a nymph or young boy

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Female acrobate balancing on the head of a warrior (after a Greek vase)

Female acrobate balancing on the head of a warrior (after a Greek vase)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Fighting Centaur and Lapith, after a south metope of the Parthenon

Fighting Centaur and Lapith, after a south metope of the Parthenon

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Figuren aan tafel: Oldenbarnevelt in gevangenschap

Figuren aan tafel: Oldenbarnevelt in gevangenschap

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Figuren in boom

Figuren in boom

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Figuren in portaal: Oldenbarnevelt voor de executie

Figuren in portaal: Oldenbarnevelt voor de executie

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Figuren rond een tafel

Figuren rond een tafel

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Florence: bebouwing langs de rivier: ‘Arno’

Florence: bebouwing langs de rivier: ‘Arno’

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Florence: gebouw en muur met heuvels op de achtergrond

Florence: gebouw en muur met heuvels op de achtergrond

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Florence: straatscene m. enige gebouwen aan een plein

Florence: straatscene m. enige gebouwen aan een plein

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Fossiel (koraal): met detail-aanzichten.

Fossiel (koraal): met detail-aanzichten.

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Fossiel (koraal): met detail-aanzichten

Fossiel (koraal): met detail-aanzichten

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Frontaal zittende mannenfiguur, met lange mantel

Frontaal zittende mannenfiguur, met lange mantel

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Funerary monument for J.M. Kemper in Leiden, Pieterskerk

Funerary monument for J.M. Kemper in Leiden, Pieterskerk

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Funerary monument for S.

Funerary monument for S.

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Gaande mannelijke naaktfiguur, met geheven arm

Gaande mannelijke naaktfiguur, met geheven arm

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

Galathea

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Gebeeldhouwde mannenkop

Gebeeldhouwde mannenkop

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Gebogen rugfiguur, zittend aan tafel

Gebogen rugfiguur, zittend aan tafel

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

Gebouwencomplex

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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