Museo Nacional de San Carlos

Museo Nacional de San Carlos

Oval patio of the museum
Location	Colonia Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City
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 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^[1]
• ... - 2011: Maria Fernanda Matos Moctezuma^[2]
• 2011 - ...: Carmen Gaitán^[3]

The collection

Paintings

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  Max Koner, Portrait of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, 1904
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  Pedro Campaña, The Seven Virtues, ca. 1550
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  Alonzo Cano, John the Evangelist gives the communion to the Virgin, 17th century
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  Juan Carreño de Miranda, Queen Mariana of Austria, 1673
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  Attributed to Piero di Cosimo, Portrait of a boy, ca. 1500
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  Attributed to Piero di Cosimo, The Virgin, child Jesus and John the Baptist, ca. 1500
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  Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve, 1530
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  Henri Decaisne, Odalisque, first half of the 19th century
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  Gaudenzio Ferrari, Hieronymus, first half of the 16th century
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  Frans Hals, Unknown man, 1634
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  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The child Saint John the Baptist, 19th century
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  Federico de Madrazo, Woman in White, 1859
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  Circle of Jan Matsys, Madonna and Child, 16th century
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  Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl, The resurrection of Lazarus, ca. 1480
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  Abraham Mignon, Still life, second half of the 17th century
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  Parmigianino, Holy Family, first half of the 16th century
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  Pietro Perugino, Virgin and Child crowned by two angels, first quarter of the 16th century
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  Pontormo, Virgin and Child, 16th century
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  Joaquim Sorolla, Mending nets, 1901
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  Bernardo Strozzi, Francis of Assisi, 17th century
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  Anthony van Dyck, Head of a Bearded Man, first half of the 17th century
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  Joris van Son, Still life with vegetables and fruit, 1661
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  Francisco Zurbarán, Supper at Emmaus, 17th century

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

References

Coordinates: 19°26′18″N 99°09′07″W / 19.4382°N 99.1520°W / 19.4382; -99.1520