Lot 106: David-Pierre-Giottino Humbert de Superville (The Hague 1770-1849 Leiden)

David-Pierre-Giottino Humbert de Superville (The Hague 1770-1849 Leiden)
Twelve studies after works in Florence, Pisa and Siena including: Entombment by Donatello; Satan applying to the Almighty for permission to tempt Job by Taddeo Gaddi (illustrated); Resurrection of the dead child by Giotto; and St Paul surrounded by Virtues by Lorenzetti
variously signed, inscribed and five dated '1798'
three pencil, pen and black ink, one pencil, pen and black ink and grey wash, eight pencil, on paper, three on extended sheets, two with watermark LA BRIGLIA, two with watermark coat-of-arms with initials CLS (?), one with encircled fleur-de-lis, one with watermark JH&Z with crowned fleur-de-lis
12½ x 19 7/8 in. (31.8 x 50.5 cm.) (12)

One: G. Previtali, 'Alle Origini del Primitrivismo Romantico. Il viaggio umbro-toscano di William Young Ottley e Humbert de Superville', Paragone, CXLIX, May 1962, p. 41.
H. Brigstocke, op. cit., nos. 33-34, 37-38, 40, 42, 45, 74-75, 81-82, 90, pp. 392-3, 395-7, 402, 424-6, 430, 435-6.