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Mignon Desires her Fatherland
Artist	Ary Scheffer
Year	1836
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	171 cm × 87 cm (67 in × 34 in)
Location	Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht

Mignon Desires her Fatherland (Dutch: Mignon verlangende naar haar vaderland) is an 1836 painting by the Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer. The picture depicts a young woman Mignon, inspired from a character in Goethe's 1795-96 novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. The 1866 Ambroise Thomas opera Mignon was based on the same character, and Scheffer's feminine representation of Mignon in a dress influenced her portrayal by Thomas. The painting currently hangs in the Dordrechts Museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Related paintings

• "The Harper and the Maiden", engraved by Walter from a painting by Scheffer (1851)
• "Mignon yearns for heaven" (1851/1915) by Scheffer
• Unknown name artwork by Scheffer. Between 1848 and 1858.
• Unknown name artwork by Scheffer, circa 1852–1858.

References

1. "Mignon verlangende naar vaderland – Dordrechts Museum". Dordrechts Museum (in Dutch). Retrieved 2016-12-08.
2. Karen Henson (2015). Opera Acts: Singers and Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-107-00426-9.
3. "Ary Scheffer – Societyschilder in Parijs". Dordrechts Museum.

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