Painted Roundel
1870
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1870
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Painted Roundel is a 1870 oil by Forster, a Impressionism work, depicting Putto, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This small round oil painting shows loose brushstrokes in soft blues and pinks. It looks like quick light on water, maybe a glimpse of sky. The colors mix wet-on-wet, a trick painters use to blur edges fast. The circle frame makes you focus on the mood, not details. That round shape feels different from most flat paintings. It’s a sketchy moment, not a finished scene. See how Forster handles light like Monet did.
A painted roundel from a set of 36 circular oil paintings, created in 1870 by Forster, was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1871 and 1913. Positioned in the spandrels of arches in Rooms 101 to 106, each roundel features a single cupid or nude boy with different accessories against a crimson background, including one depiction of a fair-haired cupid playing a violin.
Read the full account in the museum source.
This artist worked in oil around 1870–71, leaving behind a single decorative roundel painted on panel.
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