The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest (Un chêne au Bas-Bréau, le Bodmer), painted by Claude Monet in 1865 celebrates a single monumental oak spreading its canopy over a sunlit clearing in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Beneath the dense green foliage, flecks of golden light scatter across the russet forest floor, while slender saplings and c