Paris (AFP) — A Paris auction house is next month to sell a previously unlisted work by French impressionist Auguste Renoir of his toddler son Jean, who went on to become an Oscar-winning filmmaker.

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” — has been valued at $1 million-$1.5 million, the Drouot auction house said.

Believed to have been painted between 1890 and 1895, it features the artist’s second son Jean Renoir as a little boy, sitting on his nanny’s lap and playing with toy figurines.

Jean Renoir, born in 1894, grew up to be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975, several years before he died aged 84.

His works include 1930s classic “La Grande Illusion”, follo

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