Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, is the most important art museum in Cuba.
It was founded in 1913. Since 1953 it is located in its current home, the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Covering an area of 7,600 m² 1,200 ancient works of art, European and Latin American art are currently being shown to the present.
The collection of paintings
The main attraction of the museum is the collection of European paintings from the 15th to the early 20th century. The collection consists primarily of English, Flemish, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish school works. Among several works of great art-historical significance.
Early Netherlandish Masterpieces
Hans Memling: Triptych - Madonna and Child with Donors couple
German master
Ludger tom Ring the Younger: Portrait of a Lady
English Masters
Thomas Gainsborough: Portrait of William Pitt; Portrait of the future King George IV as Prince of Wales; John Hoppner: Portrait of Miss Sarah Gale; Godrey Kneller: Portrait of a lady; Thomas Lawrence: Portrait of Mrs. Edward Foster; Henry Raeburn: Portrait of Mis Margaret Inglis; Allan Ramsay: Portrait of Lawrence Reade; Joshua Reynolds: Portrait of Miss Frances Kemble; George Romney: Portrait of Mrs. John Chaworth pattern; William Turner: Antique landscape with figural staffage
Flemish
Jan Brueghel the Younger: fair; January Cossiers: The five senses; Sir Anthony Van Dyck: Portrait of Lady Mayo; Peter Paul Rubens: Faun and girl with basket of fruit; Theodor van Thulden: Christ at the Column; Marten van Valckenborgh Circle: The Tower of Babel; Cornelis of Vos: Portrait of a Lady
French Master
Eugène Carrière: Head of a Woman; Camille Corot: Old Bridge at Mantes; Charles -François Daubigny: cliff; Monsù Desiderio: The Martyrdom of a saint; Narcisse Diaz de la Peña Virgilie: The forest of Fontainebleau; François Xavier Fabre: Portrait of Elisabetta Fabiola Mascagni; Jean -François Millet: Landscape with sheep; Adolphe Monticelli: Women in a garden; Jean- Baptiste Pater: Scène Galante; Louis Tocqué: Portrait of a lady;
Dutch Masters
Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem: Landscape with Italian scenery; Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp: The circumcision of Christ; Isaac van Duynen: Fish still life; Barent Fabritius: Portrait of a bearded man; Willem Claesz. Heda: Still Life; Thomas de Keyser: Portrait of an elderly woman; Gerard de Lairesse: Allegory of Spring; Willem van Mieris: family portrait; Aert van der Neer: Oude Kerk on the Amstel River; Rembrandt School: Portrait of a man; Jan Steen: Self-Portrait with flute; Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck: Portrait of a man; January Wijnants: Landscape
Italian Master
Jacopo Bassano: St. Christopher; Agnolo Bronzino: Portrait of a lady; Giovanni Antonio Canal: View of the Thames; Vittore Carpaccio: Reception of a delegation; Annibale Carracci: Adam and Eve; Giacomo Francesco Cipper: The Spinner; Luca Giordano: Abraham and the angels; Francesco Guardi: lagoon Fondamenta Nuove; Guercino: The Triumph of David; Michele Marie ski: Venetian scene; Giovanni Paolo Pannini: Roman ruins; Matia Preti: Joseph before Pharaoh; Guido Reni: The Virgin and Child; Jacopo Tintoretto: Lucretia
Spanish Master
Bartolome Esteban Murillo: The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist; Jusepe de Ribera: Saint Sebastian; St. John the Baptist; Saint Catherine of Alexandria; Luis Tristán: The Martyrdom of St. Andrew; Juan Valdés Leal: Saint John of Capistrano; Diego Velázquez Workshop: The Mocking of Christ; Francisco de Zurbarán: Saint Bruno; Maria with the child