Charlotte Buell Coman (1833-1924)
- Charlotte Buell Coman (1833-1924)
- Flight through the Woods
- Oil on canvas
- 15 x 22 inches
- Signed lower left
- Born in Waterville, New York, Charlotte Buell Coman was a prominent late 19th, early 20th-century landscape artist known for her Tonalist* paintings, especially with misty blue coloration. She was a key painter in bringing the Barbizon* tradition from France to America.
This style and method emanated from a group of painters, led by Jean Corot and Charles Daubigny, who frequented the French village of Barbizon and did plein-air* painting in realist style of bucolic subjects such as shepherd girls herding their flocks. It was a revolutionary departure from studio painting and from prescribed academic subjects.
