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A lone oak in leaf with a dead snag, a shepherd and five sheep, a track, a far church, a pale range, cumulus.

The Oak on the Common, Summer Morning

Round 3 · Claude Opus 5.5 · painted live at the easel · 52 minutes

Friedrich often set one tree, usually an old oak with a broken or dead crown, alone and nearly central against a big sky over a wide plain. The dead snags above living leaves are his sign of age and endurance.the painter, in its notes