# Quentin Buvelot

Quentin Buvelot (born 1969 in Utrecht) is a Dutch art historian. He works as the chief curator at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, and is regarded as a specialist in the painting of the Dutch Golden Age.

## Biograpahy

Buvelot studied art history and archaeology at Utrecht University from 1987 to 1993. Subsequently, he worked there as a junior lecturer in 1994. From June 1994 to May 1995, he served as a guest curator for the Koninklijk Paleis in Amsterdam, where he prepared an exhibition on the architect Jacob van Campen. From 1996 to 1998, he worked for the Parisian Fondation Custodia, where he compiled a catalog of Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier.
Buvelot has been a curator at the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1996. Since then, he has organized numerous exhibitions, often in collaboration with art historians from international partner museums. He has published numerous texts on these and other topics. He is a board member of the art foundation Vereniging Rembrandt, a board member of the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, and chair of the program committee of CODART, an international network of curators of Dutch and Flemish art.

## Exhibitions curated

* The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces from the Mauritshuis (2022), The Frick Collection, New York.
* Hollandse meesters uit de Hermitage: Oogappels van de tsaren (2021), Hermitage Amsterdam.
* Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry (2020), Louvre Museum, Paris.
* Slow Food: Still Lifes from the Dutch Golden Age (2019), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Prized Possessions: Dutch Paintings from National Trust Houses (2018), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Dutch Masters from the Hermitage (2017), Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
* Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer (2016), Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London.
* Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis (2015), de Young Museum, San Francisco; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Frick Collection, New York.
* La ragazza con l’orecchino di perla: Il mito della Golden Age (2014), Palazzo Fava, Bologna.
* Made in Holland: Highlights from the Collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo (2013), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Passie voor schilderijen: De verzameling Steengracht van Duivenvoorde (2012), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Jacob van Ruisdael Paints Bentheim (2011), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Philips Wouwerman 1619-1668 (2010), Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel; Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* De Stillevens van Adriaen Coorte (2009), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Met Hart en Ziel: Frits Duparc als Directeur van het Mauritshuis, 1991-2008 (2008), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals (2007), National Gallery, London; Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Frans van Mieris 1635-1681 (2006), Mauritshuis, The Hague; National Gallery of Art, Washington.
* Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis: Een Vorstelijke Verzameling (2005), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis: A Summary Catalogue (2004), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Albert Eckhout: A Dutch Artist in Brazil (2003), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Dutch and Flemish Old Masters from the Kremer Collection (2002), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* A Choice Collection: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings from the Frits Lugt Collection (2001), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Rembrandt by Himself (2000), National Gallery, London; Mauritshuis, The Hague.
* Tableaux Flamands et Hollandais du Musée Fabre de Montpellier (1999), Institut Néerlandais, Paris; Musée Fabre, Montpellier.

## Selected publications

* with Michel Hilaire, Olivier Zeder: Tableaux flamands et hollandais du Musée Fabre de Montpellier. Exhibition catalog, Institut Neérlandais Paris and Musée Fabre Montpellier, Waanders, Zwolle 1998, ISBN 90-400-9234-6.
* with Christopher Whiter, Edwin Buijsen: Rembrandt's Self Portraits. Exhibition catalog, Mauritshuis The Hague and National Gallery London, Waanders, Zwolle 1999, ISBN 90-400-9331-8.
* with Peter van der Ploeg, Epco Runia, Ariane van Suchtelen, Martin Bijl, Margaret Klinge: Dutch and Flemish Old Masters from the Kremer Collection. Fondation Aetas Aurea, The Hague 2002, ISBN 90-90-16451-0.
* with Hans Buijs: A Choice Collection, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings from the Frits Lugt Collection. Exhibition catalog, Mauritshuis The Hague, Waanders, Zwolle 2002, ISBN 90-400-9674-0.
* with Ben Broos, Ariane van Suchtelen: Portraits in the Mauritshuis, 1430–1790. Waanders, Zwolle 2004, ISBN 90-400-9000-9.
* with Peter van der Ploeg: Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, A Princely Collection. Waanders, Zwolle 2005, ISBN 90-400-9174-9.
* Frans van Mieris 1635–1681. Exhibition catalog, Mauritshuis The Hague and National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Waanders, Zwolle 2006, ISBN 90-400-8161-1.
* with Rudi Ekkart: Dutch Portraits, The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals. Exhibition catalog, National Gallery London and Mauritshuis The Hague, Belser, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7630-2491-9.
* The Still Lifes of Adriaen Coorte. Exhibition catalog and catalog raisonné, Mauritshuis, The Hague 2008, ISBN 978-90-400-8502-4.
* with Frederik Duparc: Philips Wouwerman. Exhibition catalog, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Kassel and Mauritshuis The Hague, Hirmer, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7774-2251-0.
* Jacob van Ruisdael Paints Bentheim. Exhibition catalog, Mauritshuis The Hague, Waanders, Zwolle 2009, ISBN 978-90-400-8598-7.
* Made in Holland: Highlights from the Collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo. Exhibition catalog, Mauritshuis The Hague, Waanders, Zwolle 2010, ISBN 978-90-400-7744-9.
* with Desmond Shawe-Taylor: Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer. Exhibition catalog, Mauritshuis The Hague, Queen’s Gallery Buckingham Palace London and Queen’s Gallery Palace of Holyroodhouse Edinburgh, Royal Collection Trust, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-909741-19-5.
* with Yvonne Bleyerveld, Milou Goverde, Zoran Kwak, Anne Lenders, Fred G. Meijer, Charlotte Rulkens: Slow Food. Dutch and Flemish Meal Still Lifes, 1600-1640. Exhibition catalog, Mauritshus The Hague, Waanders, Zwolle 2017, ISBN 978-94-6262-117-6.
* with Bernd Ebert, Cécile Tainturier: Jacobus Vrel: In the Footsteps of a Mysterious Painter. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and Hirmer, Munich 2021, ISBN 978-3-7774-3586-2.
* Manhattan Masters. Dutch Paintings from the Frick Collection. Exhibition catalog, Mauritshuis Foundation and Waanders, The Hague and Zwolle 2022, ISBN 978-94-6262-429-0.