The oil painting depicting the artist’s son Jean had never been exhibited or sold before.
A previously unknown work by French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir depicting his son Jean sold for €1.8m ($2.08m) at a Paris auction, according to the auction house.
The oil painting – L’enfant et ses jouets – Gabrielle et le fils de l’artiste, Jean (The Child and His Toys – Gabrielle and the son’s artist, Jean) – had never been exhibited or sold before.
It belonged to Jean’s godmother Jeanne Baudot, a friend and student of Renoir’s, who passed the painting on to her inheritors.
Believed to have been painted between 1890 and 1895, it features the artist’s second son, who went on to become an Oscar-winning film-maker, shown sitting with his nanny.
