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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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Grotta Ferrata, bij Rome: gezicht op enige gebouwen

Grotta Ferrata, bij Rome: gezicht op enige gebouwen

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

Half knielende naakte man

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Half liggend vrouwelijk naakt: rugfiguur

Half liggend vrouwelijk naakt: rugfiguur

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Half op de buik liggende vrouwenfiguur, tweemaal

Half op de buik liggende vrouwenfiguur, tweemaal

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Halfgeknielde krijger in gevecht, rugfiguur

Halfgeknielde krijger in gevecht, rugfiguur

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Handwerkende vrouw, zittend: wellicht Mietje Brinkman

Handwerkende vrouw, zittend: wellicht Mietje Brinkman

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of a bearded man with a frightened expression

Head of a bearded man with a frightened expression

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of a Chinese

Head of a Chinese

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of a christian knight in armour

Head of a christian knight in armour

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of a man with a beard

Head of a man with a beard

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of a monster or devil with ‘broken’ eyes

Head of a monster or devil with ‘broken’ eyes

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of a roaring lion

Head of a roaring lion

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of Moses

Head of Moses

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of Phidias, in profile to the right

Head of Phidias, in profile to the right

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of the Apollo Belvedere, seen in profile

Head of the Apollo Belvedere, seen in profile

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of the Hercules Farnese, seen in profile

Head of the Hercules Farnese, seen in profile

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of the so called dying Alexander

Head of the so called dying Alexander

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Head of the Zeus Otricoli

Head of the Zeus Otricoli

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Heads of a cat and a dog, the position of their eyes compared

Heads of a cat and a dog, the position of their eyes compared

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hercules and Omphale

Hercules and Omphale

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

Hercules Farnese.

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

Hercules Farnese

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hercules fighting the Néén lion

Hercules fighting the Néén lion

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hercules in gevecht met de Hydra van Lerna

Hercules in gevecht met de Hydra van Lerna

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hercules killing Alcyoneus with the help of Minerva and Isis

Hercules killing Alcyoneus with the help of Minerva and Isis

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hercules or king Athamas killing one of his sons

Hercules or king Athamas killing one of his sons

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Herschepping v. PK 620 (gebeeldhouwde Egyptische kop)

Herschepping v. PK 620 (gebeeldhouwde Egyptische kop)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Het gelaat v.e. vrouw, ter maskering

Het gelaat v.e. vrouw, ter maskering

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Het kind Mozes in een biezen mandje

Het kind Mozes in een biezen mandje

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Het linkeroog v.e. antieke sculptuur en profil

Het linkeroog v.e. antieke sculptuur en profil

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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