Quentin Buvelot

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Quentin Buvelot
Born1969 (age 5556)
Utrecht, the Netherlands
Alma mater University of Utrecht
Occupation(s)art historian, author, curator

Quentin Buvelot (born 1969 in Utrecht) is a Dutch art historian. [1] 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. [2] [3] [4] He has lectured widely, and published extensively, on seventeenth-century Dutch art, and has been instrumental in helping bring mass attention to numerous artists of the era, through his many exhibitions at the Mauritshuis. [5]

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Biography

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. [6] [7] 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. [8]

Exhibitions curated

Selected publications

References

  1. "Rembrandt in a Red Beret Dispute". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  2. "Quentin Buvelot". RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  3. "Napoleon Loot: Art Restitution and History". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  4. "Quentin Buvelot". The Leiden Collection. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  5. Siegal, Nina (April 4, 2025). "Hiding Girl With a Pearl Earring From the Nazis". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  6. "Rijksmuseum ontdekt zes schilderijen Hercules Segers". Volkskrant. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  7. "Privécollectie Van Otterloos in Mauritshuis". Het Parool (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 November 2010.
  8. Entry on Quentin Buvelot at CODART.
  9. "Prized Possessions: Dutch Paintings from National Trust Houses". Mauritshuis. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  10. "Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 2024-07-30.[ permanent dead link ]
  11. "Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis". de Young Museum. Retrieved 2024-07-30.[ permanent dead link ]
  12. "La ragazza con l'orecchino di perla: Il mito della Golden Age". Linea d’ombra. Retrieved 2024-07-30.[ permanent dead link ]