Diana Coomans (16 August 1861 – 18 June 1952) was a Belgian painter. Coomans was born in Paris as the daughter of the painter Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans (1816–1889) and Adelaide Lacroix (1838–1884). Her sister Heva Coomans and her brother Oscar-Jean Coomans (1848–1884) were also painters. Like her father and sister, she specialized in romantic portrayals of the original inhabitants of

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devastated life there. Her 1885 work ''In the Gynaeceum'' was included in the book ''

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on Project Gutenberg Coomans died in

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