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Le Chêne de Bodmer dans la forêt de Fontainebleau W60 par Claude Monet, 1865, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Le Chêne de Bodmer dans la forêt de Fontainebleau W60 par Claude Monet, 1865, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Le Chêne de Bodmer dans la forêt de Fontainebleau W60 par Claude Monet, 1865, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau forest W60 - Claude Monet

The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau forest W60 - Claude Monet

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Boutique Claude Monet Forest landscapes and undergrowth Forest landscapes and undergrowth French painting – French artists Impressionist Impressionist Landscapes Japonism Karl Bodmer Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Claude Monet · Famous tree of Fontainebleau in the autumn light · Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau forest W60hand painted reproduction

A gigantic oak unfolds its gnarled trunk and branches throughout the composition. Behind it, the Pavé de Chailly opens in a yellow and green light, while a carpet of red leaves covers the ground. Monet gives this famous Fontainebleau tree an almost sculptural presence, but the filtered light animates each bark, leaf and clearing.

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The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau forest W60Claude Monet · 1865
1865Dating
96.2 × 129.2 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
64.210 · Wildenstein 60Inventory
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Created for youEach copy is made to order.
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Look at the work

Monumental trunk opens branches above autumn clearing

The oak starts from the lower right, quickly divides into several thick branches then crosses the center and the upper edge. Its dark silhouette frames areas of lighter sky and foliage. On the left, the road or clearing moves away between trees of decreasing dimensions.

The soil receives a seedling of orange, red, yellow and brown leaves. Cooler greens remain in the grass and foliage. On the trunk, touches of gray, blue, green and ocher describe the bark and the light without smoothing out its numerous twists.

The oak is an old and stable mass, but Monet makes it vibrate with the color of autumn and the bursts of sunlight passing through its branches.

Composition, touch and light

What Monet builds behind the impression of snapshot

Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.

01

A structure almost entirely based on the tree

The main branches create diagonals and arches that distribute the light openings. The landscape is not placed behind the oak: it is seen through its architecture.

02

Warm colors announcing the end of the stay

Yellows, greens and oranges filter into the canopy, while red leaves accumulate on the ground. The Met connects this palette to October 1865, shortly before Monet's departure from Fontainebleau.

03

A pattern known to artists

The tree bears the name of Karl Bodmer, a Swiss painter who exhibited it at the Salon of 1850. Monet took this place frequented since the 1830s and transformed it by direct observation of light.

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The visual corresponds to Bodmer's Oak in the Fontainebleau Forest, inventory 64.210 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wildenstein number 60. The image of 2,200 × 1,645 px is preserved at its native definition in a real WebP.

Composition01

The main branches are not simple lines

They have volume, breaks and color changes. Grey, blue and green must shape their faces before adding warm touches of light.

Color02

The road remains visible between the roots and the trees

Its clear passage helps separate the foreground from the background. It should gradually thin without becoming a white ribbon with clean edges.

Matter03

The carpet of leaves retains a wide variety

Oranges and ochres are mixed with green, brown and gray. This diversity makes the soil natural and avoids a uniform decorative effect.

Documented benchmarks

Three pieces of information specific to this work

Painted in 1865, this oil on canvas measures 96.2 × 129.2 cm. It is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art under inventory 64.210 and listed as Wildenstein 60.

Location01

A famous tree from the Fontainebleau forest

The forest became a major center for landscape painters in the 1830s. The oak is named after Karl Bodmer, whose representation exhibited in 1850 helped to make the motif known.

Dating02

Probably October 1865

The Met observes that the red leaves and autumn light likely place the execution shortly before the end of Monet's months-long stay at Fontainebleau in October 1865.

Project03

A landscape linked to Lunch on the Grass

The painting is probably the last of several forest studies linked to the monumental Luncheon on the Grass of 1865 -1866. The scale of the oak and the opening of the clearing correspond to this ambition of great composition.

Your reproduction

What the painter must preserve

Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.

  • Respect all major bifurcations of the trunk.
  • Let the landscape appear through the branches.
  • Maintain balance of greens and red colors.
  • Modulate the bark without continuous black contours.

Work sheet

Title The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau forest W60
Artist Claude Monet (1840 -1926)
Date 1865
Original technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 96.2 × 129.2 cm
Orientation Monumental horizontal
Conservation Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
Inventory 64.210 · Wildenstein 60
Your reproduction Handmade oil painting on canvas
Consult the reference notice - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Bodmer Oak, 64.210

Presentation in your interior

A palette designed with the room

This large landscape is suitable for a spacious living room, library or dining room. A walnut, bronze or smoked oak frame accompanies the bark; a linen, olive green or light earth wall reveals the autumn leaves.

Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau forest W60, painted for your interior

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