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Mignon Desires her Fatherland

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Mignon Desires her Fatherland
ArtistAry Scheffer
Year1836
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions171 cm × 87 cm (67 in × 34 in)
LocationDordrechts 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.[1] 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.[2] The painting currently hangs in the Dordrechts Museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands.[3]

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  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.