# Marrigje Rikken

Marrigje Rikken (born 1984) is a Dutch art historian, curator, and museum director, specializing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish art.
She received her PhD in art history from the University of Leiden, where she completed her dissertation on animal depictions in Southern Netherlandish art from 1550 to 1630 in 2016. Rikken has published extensively on Netherlandish art, and particularly concerning artists from the Southern Netherlands. Some of her notable works include contributions to the "CODART Canon" and the exhibition catalogue "Frans Hals and the Moderns." She has also written essays and articles for various journals and books, covering topics from exotic animal paintings to color printing practices in Amsterdam during the seventeenth century.
Rikken began her curatorial career as an assistant curator of seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age painting at the Rijksmuseum from 2006 to 2008. She later lectured in art history at the University of Amsterdam from 2009 to 2015.
In 2014, she joined the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem as an Associate Curator of Old Masters, later becoming the Head of Collections and Exhibitions, then Head of Collections and Presentations. Her work at the Frans Hals Museum involved curating exhibitions such as "Frans Hals and the Moderns", and developing the museum's trans-historical collection and the Frans Hals Research Center.
In summer of 2024, she was appointed as the director of Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, succeeding the prior director from 2008-2021, Lidewij de Koekkoek.
During her time at the Frans Hals Museum, she oversaw several important restorations, including a monumental painting in the collection by Maarten van Heemskerk. The work was the centerpiece of the Maarten van Heemskerck exhibition, held from September 28, 2024, to January 19, 2025, at the Frans Hals Museum, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, and Teylers Museum.

## Publications
### 2021

* Rikken, Marrigje. "Pieter Aertsen 'Meat Stall with the Holy Family', 1551." Essay in 100 Masterpieces. Dutch and Flemish art (1350-1750). CODART Canon, pp. 82-83. Tielt: Lannoo, 2021.

### 2020

* Entry in Blind Date. Portretten met blikken en blozen, edited by Katharina van Cauteren, pp. 394-395. Veurne: Hannibal Books, 2020.
* Hillegers, Jasper, Elmer Kolfin, Marrigje Rikken, and Eric Jan Sluijter (eds.). Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 12:1 (Winter 2020). Online at jhna.org.

### 2019

* Entries in Rubens, Van Dyck and the Splendour of Flemish Painting, edited by Júlia Tátrai, pp. 196-197, 252-253, and 268-269. Budapest, 2019.

### 2018

* Rikken, Marrigje (ed.). Frans Hals ontmoet Singer Sargent, Van Gogh en Manet. Magazine to accompany the exhibition Frans Hals and the Moderns. Haarlem: Frans Hals Museum, 2018.

### 2017

* Rikken, Marrigje. "Datasets en motiefontlening in diervoorstellingen." Article in RKD Bulletin (2017), no. 1, pp. 26-33. The Hague: RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, 2017.

### 2016

* Rikken, Marrigje. "From top to bottom and from root to crown: plant and animal drawings in the Print Room of Leiden University." Essay in For Study and Delight: Drawings and Prints from Leiden University, edited by J. Schaeps, E. Grasman, E. Kolfin, and N. Bartelings, pp. 86-115. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2016.
* Rikken, Marrigje. Dieren verbeeld: diervoorstellingen in tekeningen, prenten en schilderijen door kunstenaars uit de Zuidelijke Nederlanden tussen 1550 en 1630. Unpublished dissertation. University of Leiden, 2016.
* Rikken, Marrigje, Ildikó Ember, and Júlia Tátrai (eds.). Hollandse meesters uit Boedapest. Topstukken uit het Szépmüvészeti Múzeum. English edition: Dutch Old Masters from Budapest. Highlights from the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum. Rotterdam: Nai010 uitgevers, 2016.

### 2015

* Kolfin, Elmer, and Marrigje Rikken. "Colourful Topography: A Short-Lived Practice in Amsterdam Print Publishing around 1700." Essay in Printing Colour 1400-1700: History, Techniques, Functions and Receptions, edited by A. Stijnman and E. Savage, pp. 207-215. Boston: Brill, 2015.

### 2014

* Rikken, Marrigje. "Exotic Animal Paintings by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Roelant Savery." Article in Intersections, vol. 32 (2014), pp. 400-430.
* Rikken, Marrigje. "A Spanish Album of Drawings of Animals in a South-Netherlandish Context: a Reattribution to Lambert Lombard." Article in The Rijksmuseum Bulletin, vol. 62, no. 2 (2014), pp. 106-123.

### 2012

* Rikken, Marrigje. "Abraham Ortelius as intermediator for the Antwerp animal trailblazers." Article in Yearbook for the European Culture of Science, vol. 6 (2012), pp. 95-128.
* Rikken, Marrigje. "Conrad Gessners motieven in Antwerpen: een debat in beelden." Article in De Boekenwereld: Tijdschrift voor boek en prent (Veranderlijke dieren van Conrad Gessner), vol. 29, no. 1 (2012), pp. 21-32.

### 2011

* Rikken, Marrigje. "Nicolaas Verkolje en het classicisme." Essay in Nicolaas Verkolje 1673-1746: De fluwelen hand, edited by P. Knolle and E. Korthals Altes, pp. 23-33. Zwolle: Waanders, 2011.
* Rikken, Marrigje, and Z. Benders. "Jacob van Ruisdael's Landscape with Waterfall." Article in The Rijksmuseum Bulletin, vol. 59, no. 3 (2011), pp. 272-285.
* Rikken, Marrigje, and P.J. Smith. "Jan Brueghel's Allegory of Air (1621) in natural historical perspective." Article in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (Art and Science), (2011), pp. 86-115.

### 2010

* Rikken, Marrigje. "Melchior d'Hondecoeter – Bird Painter." Essay in Intolerance, edited by W. de Rooij and B. Meyer-Krahmer, pp. 9-32. Düsseldorf: Feymedia Verlag, 2010.

### 2009

* Rikken, Marrigje. "Melchior d'Hondecoeter: la fastuosidad de los aviarios barrocos." Article in Numen: Revista de arte, no. 7 (2009), pp. 38-53.

### 2008

* Rikken, Marrigje. Melchior d'Hondecoeter: Vogelschilder / Melchior d'Hondecoeter: Bird painter. Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam, 2008.
* Rikken, Marrigje. "Het Utrechts Zang-Prieeltjen: een valse noot tussen de liedboeken?". Article in De zeventiende eeuw (Klank van de stad), vol. 24, no. 1 (2008), pp. 66-88.
* Rikken, Marrigje. "Vroege kleurendruk in Amsterdam: een onbekend zeventiende-eeuws plaatwerk van Carel Allard." Article in De Boekenwereld: Tijdschrift voor boek en prent (Vroege kleurendruk in Amsterdam), vol. 24, no. 4 (2008), pp. 202-226.

### 2007

* Rikken, Marrigje, and E. Kolfin. "A Very Personal Copy: Pieter van Veen's Illustrations to Montaigne's Essais." Article in Montaigne and the Low Countries (1580-1700), Intersections 8, edited by P.J. Smith and K.A.E. Enenkel, pp. 247-262. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
* Rikken, Marrigje. "B. Neumann, M.M. Lommen, J.C.E. Belinfante." Entry in Bijzondere collecties naar een nieuwe bibliotheek. Zwolle: Waanders, 2007.
* Rikken, Marrigje, and R. Suijver. "'Stel dat Ruisdael was gestopt met zijn watervallen...' John Constable te gast in het rijksmuseum." Article in Kunstkrant Rijksmuseum, no. 5 (2007), pp. 4-7.
* Rikken, Marrigje. "W.E. Franits, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution." Review in De zeventiende eeuw, vol. 22, no. 2 (2006), pp. 380.