Museo Nacional de San Carlos
Oval patio of the museum
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| Location | Colonia Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City |
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| Website | www.mnsancarlos.com/ |
The Museo Nacional de San Carlos (English: National Museum of San Carlos) is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City. The museum is housed in the Palacio del Conde de Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City. It contains works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Parmigianino, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Auguste Rodin and other well-known European painters and sculptors.
The museum was founded in 1968 by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura to house the collection of European art.
&François Boucher, Portrait of a child with a hat, 18th century
Max Koner, Portrait of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, 1904
Pedro Campaña, The Seven Virtues, ca. 1550
Alonzo Cano, John the Evangelist gives the communion to the Virgin, 17th century
Juan Carreño de Miranda, Queen Mariana of Austria, 1673
Attributed to Piero di Cosimo, Portrait of a boy, ca. 1500
Attributed to Piero di Cosimo, The Virgin, child Jesus and John the Baptist, ca. 1500
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve, 1530
Henri Decaisne, Odalisque, first half of the 19th century
Gaudenzio Ferrari, Hieronymus, first half of the 16th century
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