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.
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08/04/2026

The tablet in Clio’s hands quotes Pliny the Younger on what history is actually for.

The inscription translates roughly to “History is written not for display but in the interests of strict truth” — a fitting line for the muse heralded as the Proclaimer of historical truths. Carved by a student under Raffaello Romanelli’s direction in the early 20th century, this neoclassical marble pairs pure white stone with robes of Siena marble, the daring polychrome approach that separated Raffaello from his father Pasquale.

The base confirms it: “Executé sous la Direction du Prof. Romanelli.”

Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 31-3877.

The fan may be the most demanding format the Impressionists ever attempted.Folding fans had been in Europe since the 16t...
08/03/2026

The fan may be the most demanding format the Impressionists ever attempted.

Folding fans had been in Europe since the 16th century, but the Japonisme of the 1870s pushed artists to treat the shape as a genuine problem: a half-moon that refuses a horizon line. Degas wanted a room devoted to fans at the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition of 1879. He got 21 across three artists, his own five, four by Jean-Louis Forain and twelve by Camille Pissarro, who returned to the format more often than anyone.

Explore our Pissarro and Bonnard fan paintings on our website.

Before every great artist, there was an artist they admired. For Vincent van Gogh, that artist was Léon Augustin Lhermit...
07/31/2026

Before every great artist, there was an artist they admired.

For Vincent van Gogh, that artist was Léon Augustin Lhermitte. In letters to his brother Theo, Van Gogh confessed he was "too preoccupied" by Lhermitte to discuss anything else, even requesting reproductions of his work and praising his mastery of the figure. A leading voice of French Naturalism, Lhermitte devoted his career to dignified scenes of rural labor, rendered with a draftsman's precision and a painter's warmth. His fields, harvesters and village wells shaped how a generation saw the working countryside.

Which artist first drew you into art history?

07/28/2026

The golden hour, captured in oil.

In Summer Evening, Edward Alfred Cucuel (1875-1954) depicts two fashionable women lingering in a rowboat on a tranquil lake, enveloped in shimmering water, distant hills and dappled foliage. A student of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts, the San Francisco-born painter later joined Munich’s Scholle group under Leo Putz, where he refined the luminous plein air style that placed him among the finest American Impressionists.

His works reside in institutional collections from England to Minnesota — a testament to his enduring mastery of light and leisure.

Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-2719.

Henry Moret's La baie de Lampaul, île d'Ouessant now graces our gallery, a masterwork painted at the height of his caree...
07/27/2026

Henry Moret's La baie de Lampaul, île d'Ouessant now graces our gallery, a masterwork painted at the height of his career. This 1897 canvas captures the turquoise waters and sun-warmed cliffs of Brittany's île d'Ouessant, rendered through the Post-Impressionist eye Moret sharpened alongside Paul Gauguin and the Pont-Aven circle. Layered brushstrokes animate the bay's surface while moored fishing boats anchor its quiet drama. Moret's Brittany seascapes hang today in the Musée d'Orsay, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the National Gallery of Art.

What draws your eye first: the water or the rock?

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Hiver bleu by André Brasilier reveals how the artist transforms a familiar winter scene into something hushed and dreaml...
07/24/2026

Hiver bleu by André Brasilier reveals how the artist transforms a familiar winter scene into something hushed and dreamlike. Two riders and their horses cross a snowbound path beneath a grove of trees rendered in vibrating blue, a signature device of Brasilier's expressionist style. Brasilier has called the horse "a superb creation... charged with symbolism, strength, dynamism and beauty," a philosophy that runs throughout his work. Only two living artists have received a retrospective at the Hermitage Museum. Brasilier is one of them.

What draws you into this composition first, the color or the movement?

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07/21/2026

Jean-Pierre Cassigneul captures elegance in a single, unified gesture. In “Le bouquet dans les bras,” a woman clutches a bouquet of lilies, her pearls and ruffled hat nodding to Cassigneul’s roots in French couture. Dynamic lighting binds figure and flower into one striking composition. As one of France’s most celebrated living painters, Cassigneul draws on the legacy of Les Nabis and the expressive portraiture of Kees van Dongen to forge a style distinctly his own.

Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-2738.

Why are we still obsessed with Ancient Greece? Its ideals never really left. From democracy to sculpture, Greek civiliza...
07/20/2026

Why are we still obsessed with Ancient Greece?

Its ideals never really left. From democracy to sculpture, Greek civilization shaped the Romans, inspired the Renaissance and continues to influence contemporary art and design. This obsession resurfaces in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, out July 17, retelling a story nearly 3,000 years old. Explore the artifacts, Neoclassical treasures and paintings that carry this legacy forward, including a Roman marble stele fragment, an Italian alabaster Borghese vase, John William Godward's A Classical Beauty in Profile and a pair of Henry Dasson urns carved from Egyptian granite.

Which era of classical influence speaks to you most?

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Study for "L'Acropole," by Paul Delvaux, 1965.This preliminary study prefigures the artist's masterwork L'Acropole, now ...
07/17/2026

Study for "L'Acropole," by Paul Delvaux, 1965.

This preliminary study prefigures the artist's masterwork L'Acropole, now housed in the Centre Pompidou. Rendered in watercolor, pen and ink, the composition unites Delvaux's signature motifs: a procession of white-robed figures, an idealized reclining n**e, and a central woman in a green gown, all suspended in his characteristic dreamscape. Delvaux drew equally from the writings of Jules Verne, the mythology of Homer and the Italian Mannerists he studied before the war, forging a visual language he pursued independent of the Surrealist label often applied to him. The Foundation Paul Delvaux has confirmed the work's authenticity.

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