Fragonard: Young Girl Reading, Magnet

$5.00 at National Gallery of Art.

This magnet features Jean-Honoré Fragonard's A Young Girl Reading (1770). Perhaps more than the work of his two teachers, Boucher and Chardin, Fragonard's bravura handling of brushwork and color embodies 18th-century painting aesthetics. In A Young Girl Reading, the subject is shown in profile holding a book in her right hand and completely absorbed in her reading. She appears to be sitting in a window, as light illuminates her face and body casting a faint shadow against the wall. She wears a lemon-yellow…