Fragonard's Merry Company
New York Review of Books
Colin B. Bailey writes about Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures recently on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Bailey writes that the show "[celebrates] the thirty-seven-year-old Fragonard as a practitioner of 'pure painting'—an action painter avant la lettre. His rainbow palette is 'parrot colored'—to use a term that was applied to Renoir in