The Museo Nacional de 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 Palace of the Count of 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 institution
The museum was founded in 1968 by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura to house the collection of European art.
Directors 1997 - 2004: Roxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo ... - 2011: Maria Fernanda Matos Moctezuma 2011 - ...: Carmen Gaitán
The collection
Paintings
Sculptures James Pradier, Bacchante Auguste Rodin, The call to arms Miguel E. Schulz, Diana Manuel Vilar, Charles Borromeo
Other Flemish tapestry Battle, from the 17th century
See also Bench of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
References