Museo Nacional de San Carlos
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
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
