Madame Monet Lying on a Sofa by Pierre-Auguste Renoir shows the seated and reclining figure of Madame Monet at her ease on an upholstered sofa, a book or fan loosely held in her hand and her dress falling in soft folds across the cushions. The brushwork is feathered and intimate, the palette built on creamy whites, dusty blues, and warm flesh tones in the manner of his interior portraits. Domestic portraits of close acquaintances ran as a steady current through Renoir's career, prized for the easy informality they allowed in pose and composition. The picture distills a hushed indoor moment into a luminous Impressionist study.