This little oil on canvas showing a seated lion watching the setting sun from the top of a rocky plateau is evocatively titled Les Deux Majestés and is a work by the 19th century Orientalist Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904).
The vibrantly coloured canvas measuring 10 x 17in (25 x 44cm) was given by the artist to his daughter Suzanne and features the same subject as a larger canvas now in the Milwaukee Art Center. Unpublished and a recent discovery, it has an estimate of €200,000-300,000 in the sale of Old Master and 19th century paintings to be held by Artcurial on November 13