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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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Het vagevuur

Het vagevuur

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Heuvel- of bergachtig terrein

Heuvel- of bergachtig terrein

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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High rocks with fortress on both sides of a river

High rocks with fortress on both sides of a river

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Holle wilgenstam

Holle wilgenstam

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hoofd van de gekruisigde Christus: ‘Golgotha’

Hoofd van de gekruisigde Christus: ‘Golgotha’

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hoofd van een (onbekende) man: en profil, naar rechts

Hoofd van een (onbekende) man: en profil, naar rechts

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hoofd van een slapende vrouw

Hoofd van een slapende vrouw

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hoofd van een vrouw, kennelijk in trance: de haren hoog

Hoofd van een vrouw, kennelijk in trance: de haren hoog

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hoofd van Eva

Hoofd van Eva

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hoofd van Maria Magdalena.

Hoofd van Maria Magdalena.

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Hoofd van Maria Magdalena

Hoofd van Maria Magdalena

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Horseman, after the north frieze of the Parthenon

Horseman, after the north frieze of the Parthenon

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Horseman, after the north frieze of the Parthenon

Horseman, after the north frieze of the Parthenon

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Icarus: gevleugelde man met gespreide armen

Icarus: gevleugelde man met gespreide armen

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Ice floes on the river Meuse during the winter of 1809

Ice floes on the river Meuse during the winter of 1809

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Isaäc en Rebecca: schildering in de Loggia (Vaticaan)

Isaäc en Rebecca: schildering in de Loggia (Vaticaan)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Isometric study of a portico with Doric columns

Isometric study of a portico with Doric columns

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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ittende vrouw, met de elleboog op een verhoging

ittende vrouw, met de elleboog op een verhoging

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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itting Zeus, and a detail of a bronze cup

itting Zeus, and a detail of a bronze cup

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Jezus met geknielde zondaar

Jezus met geknielde zondaar

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Jezus, staand, diéén beschaamde duivel verwittigt

Jezus, staand, diéén beschaamde duivel verwittigt

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Job wordt getroost

Job wordt getroost

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Joh. Cornelia Ziesenis-Wattier als Fredegonde (Macbeth)

Joh. Cornelia Ziesenis-Wattier als Fredegonde (Macbeth)

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Jonge vrouw, leunend in een trapportaal, armen gekruisd

Jonge vrouw, leunend in een trapportaal, armen gekruisd

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Kneeling giant with snakes around his legs

Kneeling giant with snakes around his legs

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Kneeling giant with snakes instead of feet, and a snake and a bull’s head

Kneeling giant with snakes instead of feet, and a snake and a bull’s head

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Knielende figuur, op de rug gezien

Knielende figuur, op de rug gezien

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Knielende non, de handen devoot op elkaar

Knielende non, de handen devoot op elkaar

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Knielende Tobit

Knielende Tobit

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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Knoestige stam met afgeknapte tak.

Knoestige stam met afgeknapte tak.

David Humbert de Superville (Dutch, 1770-1849)
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