Portret van Humbert de Superville
Medium
etching
Dimensions
248; 174
About this artwork
ets; proefdruk
Art Historical Context
**Portret van Humbert de Superville** is a striking etching by Dutch artist Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet, created in 1851. Measuring 174 mm wide by 248 mm high, this intimate portrait captures Humbert de Superville (1770–1849), a prominent Dutch painter, draftsman, and art theorist known for his pioneering "outline theory," which explored the emotional power of line in drawing. Produced just two years after de Superville's death, serves as a posthumous tribute, reflecting the era's reverence for intellectual figures in the arts. Cornet, a skilled 19th-century engraver, employed etching—a techniqu...
About the Artist
Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet · 1815–1882
Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet (1815–1882) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and museum curator whose career bridged artistic practice and cultural preservation. Born in Leiden in 1815, Cornet devoted his life to documenting Dutch history and culture through his paintings and drawings while simultaneously working to preserve the nation's artistic heritage as head of Leiden's Prentenkabinet (Prints Cabin...