Madame Monet Reading (La Liseuse, 1872) — Renoir Postcard

Camille Monet sits in profile on a vine-covered terrace, lost in a small book while a hazy summer garden opens behind her. Painted in 1872 and now held at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, ‘La Liseuse’ catches Renoir at his most relaxed — dappled light, loose brushwork, and a subject absorbed enough not to notice she's being watched.

A fitting pick for a bookish friend, a letter written on a slow afternoon, or a corner of an Impressionist-themed postcard collection.