Ariane van Suchtelen

Ariane van Suchtelen (born 12 July 1962, Hengelo, Overijssel) is a Dutch art historian and museum curator at the Mauritshuis in The Hague.^[1][2][3]

Van Suchtelen is a member of the noble branch of the Van Suchtelen family and a daughter of jhr. Mr. Jan Peter van Suchtelen (1916–1997) and Machteld van Hattum (1928). She is the sister of visual artist Anna van Suchtelen.^[4]

She studied art history at the University of Groningen.^[5]

Following her studies, Van Suchtelen joined the Mauritshuis as a curator, specializing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century painting of the Dutch Golden Age. Her early scholarly contribution included work for the 1986 publication Renaissance and Reformation and the Art in the Northern Netherlands. In 1996, she prepared the accompanying booklet for the Mauritshuis exhibition on Johannes Vermeer.

She is a member of CODART.^[6]

Van Suchtelen has organized numerous exhibitions and publications devoted to Dutch Golden Age painting and genre scenes in the Mauritshuis collection. In 2009, for instance, she organized the exhibition Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age, together with Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.^[7]

She co-edited Genre Paintings in the Mauritshuis (2016) with Quentin Buvelot.^[8][9]

In 2013, she wrote the text for a special collection of family portraits of the seventeenth-century merchant Willem Craeyvanger and his family. In 2015, she curated an exhibition on self-portraits and authored the accompanying catalogue Dutch Self-Portraits from the Golden Age.^[10] The exhibition received international press coverage.^[11][12]

She also curated the exhibition In Full Bloom, devoted to Dutch and Flemish flower still lifes and the contributions of female artists.^[13][14][15]

In 2021, she curated the exhibition Fleeting – Scents in Colour, which explored the representation of smell in seventeenth-century painting and incorporated reconstructed historical scents into the gallery experience.^[16][17]

• Roelant Savery's Wonderlijke Wereld^[18]
• In volle bloei^[19][20][21]

• Fleeting – Scents in Colour
• Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age
• Nicolaes Maes: Rembrandt’s Versatile Pupil
• Jan Steen’s Histories
• Jan van Scorel – Een hemelse ontdekking
• Hollandse zelfportretten: Selfies uit de Gouden Eeuw
• Kamers vol kunst in 17e-eeuws Antwerpen

• "Hendrick Avercamp – De meester van het ijsgezicht", Oud Holland (2011)^[22]
• "De Arnhemse familie Craeyvanger – een bijzondere groep portretten door Paulus Lesire, Gerard ter Borch en Caspar Netscher", Oud Holland (2014)^[23]

• Johannes Vermeer. Mauritshuis, Den Haag. The Hague, 1996.
• [editor en co-author] Kunst op vleugels. Rond een herenigd drieluik van Gerard David. The Hague, 1997.
• Winters van weleer. Het Hollandse winterlandschap in de Gouden Eeuw. The Hague/Zwolle, 2001.
• [catalogue] Hans Holbein de Jonge, 1497/98-1543. Portretschilder van de Renaissance. The Hague/Zwolle, 2003.
• [co-author] Carel Fabritius, 1622–1654. The Hague/Zwolle, 2004.
• [co-author] Rubens & Brueghel: een artistieke vriendschap. Los Angeles [etc.], 2006.
• [co-author] Rembrandt. The Hague/Zwolle, 2006.
• [co-author] Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age. The Hague/Zwolle, 2009.^[24]
• [co-auteur] Kamers vol kunst in zeventiende-eeuws Antwerpen. The Hague/Zwolle, 2009.
• Jan Steen. The Hague/Zwolle, 2011.
• De hele familie Craeyvanger. [Maastricht], 2013.
• Hollandse zelfportretten uit de Gouden Eeuw. The Hague/Zwolle, 2015.
• De doop van Christus. Jan van Scorel in Haarlem. Haarlem, [2015].
• [co-author] Genre Paintings in the Mauritshuis. The Hague/Zwolle, 2016.
• Jan Steen en de historieschilderkunst. The Hague/Zwolle, [2018].