A Pennsylvania woman believes the $12 drawing she purchased at an antique store could be an original Pierre-Auguste Renoir piece ... “There were paintings that were going for $1,000, $2,000 ...

The family donated 22 Impressionist paintings to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1963. The alleged Renoir sketch's most recent owner was likely the late Helen Tyson Madeira, who died in 2014.

She bought the piece at an auction in Montgomery County in January. A Pennsylvania woman paid $12 for a drawing that could be an original piece by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Barnes (1872-1951) assembled a collection of about 900 paintings—among numerous other objects—a panoply that includes 59 works by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and 181 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir ...

"There were paintings that were going for $1,000 ... a faint signature that indicated to her that it might be the work of Renoir. She said it appears to be a portrait of the artist's wife ...