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 *ed; a blue tunic falls from the left shoulder. Believed to be a portrait of one of the mistresses of Francis I. Called also Flora and Vanity. In cabinet of Marie de Medicis in 1649; afterward in Orleans Gallery, whence sold (1829) to Mr. Udney for $105, passed thence to Banker Walckiers, Brussels, and then to gallery of The Hague; sold at sale of William II. (1850) to Hermitage for 40,000 florins. Copy in Stafford House, London, and another at Stratton (Sir Thos. Baring). Attributed by C. & C. to A. Solario.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 58; Heaton, 258, 296; Waagen, Ermitage, 35; Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 63; Rigollot, Hist. des Arts, etc., i. 292.

La Columbine, Bernardino Luini, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

COLUMBUS DISCOVERING LAND, Hermann Freihold Plüddeman, National Gallery, Berlin; canvas, H. 4 ft. × 4 ft. 7 in.; signed, dated 1836. Columbus leans against the mast with folded hands and upraised eyes, while his officers prostrate themselves before him in shame and contrition; near the bow, sailors greet the land with passionate gestures; others embrace each other.

COLUMBUS, LANDING OF, John Vanderlyn, rotunda of Capitol, Washington; canvas, H. 12 ft. × 18 ft. The first landing of Columbus and his followers in the New World—at San Salvador. Painted in 18— for $10,000. Engraved on back of $5 United States national bank notes.

COLUMBUS, DEATH OF, Gustaav Wappers, private gallery. Columbus, lying upon his bed, places his hand on the head of a young man kneeling beside him; by the bedside is a large chest, from which the chains Columbus had worn are partly hanging out. Engraved by D. Devachez.—Art Journal (1865), 268.

COLYER, VINCENT, born at Bloomingdale, N. Y., in 1825. Landscape painter; pupil of John R. Smith and of the National Academy. Practised his profession in New York many years, exhibiting at the National Academy. Elected an A.N.A. in 1849. Studio in Rowayton, Conn. Works: Johnson Straits—British Columbia, J. N. Stearns, New York; Columbia River (1875); Portrait of Geo. H. Story, National Academy, New York; Pueblo—Indian Village, Passing Shower (1876); Home of the Yackamas—Oregon, H. Bigelow, New York; Contraband, T. Kensett, Baltimore; Darien Shore—Connecticut, Rainy Day on Connecticut Shore, Sunrise (1881); Winter on Connecticut Shore, Winter Bit (1884); Spring Flowers (1885).

COMAN, CHARLOTTE B., born at Waterville, N. Y.; contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of James Brevoort, of H. Thompson, and in Paris of Émile Vernier. Painted six years in France and Holland. Studio in New York. Works: French Village (1876); Sunset at the Seaside—France (1877); Near Fontainebleau, Borders of the Marne, Peasant Home in Normandy (1878); Cottage in Picardy (1881); Old Windmills in Holland, Spring Time in Picardy—France (1882); View near Schiedam—Holland (1883); Street in Cernoy La Ville—France, Farmer's Cottage in Picardy (1884); Poppy Field in Normandy (1885).