M.S. Rau Fine Art

M.S. Rau Fine Art M.S. Rau offers original works by history's most renowned artists including Monet, Picasso, Renoir and others.

Painted in 1892 — the most pivotal year of Morisot's life. One month before her first solo exhibition opened at Paris's ...
05/29/2026

Painted in 1892 — the most pivotal year of Morisot's life. One month before her first solo exhibition opened at Paris's Boussod, Valadon et Cie, her husband Eugène Manet died. Jeune fille au chien was born from that grief.

Set in Morisot's own garden at 40 Rue de Villejust, the canvas depicts Jeanne Fourmanoir — the celebrated model who also sat for Renoir — rendered in the hazy, luminous palette that defines Morisot's late style. The work passed through the 1896 Durand-Ruel retrospective organized by Degas, Monet, Renoir and Mallarmé in her honor, and later through distinguished American collections before entering ours.

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05/28/2026

Henry Moret painted the Breton coast like no one else — and this 1897 canvas proves it.

La baie de Lampaul, île d’Ouessant captures the rugged beauty of one of France’s most remote islands through the bold, chromatic lens of Post-Impressionism. A key figure in the Pont-Aven circle alongside Paul Gauguin, Moret transformed Brittany’s shifting seas and sunlit rock formations into works of extraordinary color and conviction. His paintings now reside in the Musée d’Orsay, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

What landscape stops you in your tracks?

Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-2137.

05/26/2026

Jean-François Raffaëlli painted Paris not as an ideal — but as a living, breathing city.

In Trinité des Monts, Paris, the Place de la Trinité pulses with Belle Époque life: horse-drawn carriages, fashionable pedestrians and the grand Église de la Sainte-Trinité rising above the boulevard. Raffaëlli — who exhibited alongside the Impressionists at the invitation of Edgar Degas — forged a style that bridged Realism, Naturalism and Impressionism, earning him the Légion d’Honneur in 1889.

His works are held by the Musée d’Orsay, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.

Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-1918.

Bold geometry. Saturated color. A side of Frank Sinatra few ever saw.Known worldwide for his unmistakable voice and larg...
05/25/2026

Bold geometry. Saturated color. A side of Frank Sinatra few ever saw.

Known worldwide for his unmistakable voice and larger-than-life presence, Sinatra also explored painting as a deeply personal creative outlet. Works like Purple Abstract, Blue Abstract and Abstract with Squares reveal his fascination with modern abstraction through rhythmic composition and vivid color.

Which work speaks to you most?

Discover these works on our website. Item No. 32-2429, 32-2431 & 32-2430.

Gustave Caillebotte produced only around 450 paintings in his lifetime — and this is one of them.Dated 1881, Paysage prè...
05/22/2026

Gustave Caillebotte produced only around 450 paintings in his lifetime — and this is one of them.

Dated 1881, Paysage près de Trouville captures a sun-drenched Normandy villa through a canopy of lush trees, painted during the artist's summers at the fashionable coastal resort town. Caillebotte's layered brushwork and unconventional framing — influenced by Japanese prints — give the composition a remarkably modern energy. Beyond his own extraordinary talent, Caillebotte shaped the course of art history as one of the earliest collectors of his fellow Impressionists. His bequest of nearly 70 masterworks to the French state later became the foundation of the Musée d'Orsay's collection.

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05/21/2026

Venice, as seen through the eyes of Canaletto’s own pupil.

William James trained under the great Venetian master during Canaletto’s years in England — and this luminous oil on canvas reveals how deeply that influence took hold. Depicting the Grand Canal from Campo San Vio toward the Dogana, James draws from a comparable Canaletto composition now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, yet transforms it with a strikingly vivid palette of crimson and deep orange. It is a scene made for the age of the Grand Tour, when British collectors sought painted records of Italy’s splendors.

What detail draws your eye first?
Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-2297.

Some of the greatest masterpieces were born far from the studio.From the wild coasts of Brittany to the ancient temples ...
05/18/2026

Some of the greatest masterpieces were born far from the studio.

From the wild coasts of Brittany to the ancient temples of Egypt, artists have long sought inspiration abroad. Brittany's wild landscape inspired daring plein air painting that helped define Impressionism, and later drew Post-Impressionist artists like Henry Moret to the Pont-Aven School. Venice became essential to the Grand Tour, training visiting artists in academic traditions and inspiring the highly detailed cityscapes known as vedute. Following Japan's reopening in 1853, woodblock prints and flattened perspectives reshaped Western art, inspiring Japonisme among the Impressionists. North Africa and the Middle East captivated 19th-century painters with the region's life and light, which they rendered for European audiences with varying degrees of accuracy. And Paris — the undisputed capital of the art world — drew artists for centuries to its cafes, salons and studios, giving rise to Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism.

Which destination would you add to the list?

Paul Delvaux’s enigmatic compositions have long captivated collectors with their quiet tension and dreamlike atmosphere....
05/15/2026

Paul Delvaux’s enigmatic compositions have long captivated collectors with their quiet tension and dreamlike atmosphere. Executed in watercolor, pen and ink on paper, this rare 1965 study for L’Acropole offers an intimate look into the artist’s creative process before the final painting entered the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Filled with the architectural precision, mysterious figures and surreal stillness that define Delvaux’s work, the composition reflects the unmistakable visual language that made him one of the leading figures of Belgian Surrealism.

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