This tree was already famous before Monet showed up. The Bodmer Oak. Fontainebleau, 1865. Every painter in Paris came here to prove something. This oak was so massive, so old that it became a landmark for artists. Like a rite of passage. You want to paint nature? Start here.
Monet was only 25. Not famous yet, in front of this thing that had been alive for centuries.
The branches take over the whole canvas. This tree doesn't fit. It doesn't care. It just grows wherever it wants. He painted it and then spent the rest of his life painting things that didn't fit inside frames either.
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