(NEXSTAR) – A painting hanging in a French family's living room turned out to be far more valuable than just another trinket or heirloom.

An auctioneer doing inventory on the family property in Touraine discovered it was an original artwork by Eugène Delacroix, a French Romantic painter who died in 1863.

The family obtained the oil-on-canvas artwork, titled "Études de lions couchés" (study of reclining lions), at a sale after........

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