Oil painting by Renoir of a young boy playing with toy figures in the lap of his nursemaid.

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Catalogue No. 1608 · Hôtel Drouot (Joron-Derem) · Paris

L'Enfant et ses jouets - Gabrielle et Jean, le fils de l'artiste

Sold for

$2million

Hôtel Drouot (Joron-Derem), Paris · 25 November 2025 · 327th of 392 in the Record Book

About $2.1 million in today’s money: 24 years of the typical US household’s income. Source

Artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
Title
L'Enfant et ses jouets - Gabrielle et Jean, le fils de l'artiste
Date
before 1910
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
54.4 x 65.4 cm (21 3/8 x 25 3/4 in)

L'Enfant et ses jouets - Gabrielle et Jean, le fils de l'artiste shows a young boy playing with toy figures in the lap of his nursemaid. Renoir painted it in oil on canvas, about 54 by 65 centimetres, and the auction house dates it to before 1910. Related versions are in the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Musée de l'Orangerie; the house says the figurines and the background are more defined in this one.

The painting stayed at Louveciennes. It was kept in Renoir's studio there, on the property of Jeanne Baudot, who died in 1957. It then passed by inheritance to Jean Griot at Louveciennes, and from him to a private collection in Paris.

Joron-Derem sold it at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris on 25 November 2025, as lot 164 of its Tableaux Modernes sale, against an estimate of €1,000,000 to €1,500,000. The house's result page gives €1,832,800 with fees. Artnet News reports a hammer price of €1.45 million and describes the total as over €1.8 million, or $2 million; the dollar figure is Artnet's rounding.

The sale
Auction house
Hôtel Drouot (Joron-Derem), Paris
Date
25 November 2025
Lot
164
Estimate
€1,000,000–1,500,000
Sold for
$2 million (including buyer’s premium) · €1,832,800
Estimate Price · sold for 22% above the high estimate. Estimates don’t include the buyer’s premium; the price does.
Provenance
  1. before 1910

    Painted by Renoir; kept in the artist's studio at Louveciennes, in Jeanne Baudot's property (Joron-Derem)

  2. undated

    Collection Jeanne Baudot, Louveciennes (died 1957)

  3. 1957

    Collection Jean Griot, Louveciennes, by inheritance from the above

  4. undated

    Private collection, Paris, by inheritance from the above

  5. 2025-11-25

    Joron-Derem, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Tableaux Modernes sale, lot 164

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Oil painting by Renoir of a young boy playing with toy figures in the lap of his nursemaid.

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