| Mignon Desires her Fatherland | |
| Artist: | Ary Scheffer |
| Year: | 1836 |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 171 |
| Width Metric: | 87 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | Dordrechts Museum |
| City: | Dordrecht |
Mignon Desires her Fatherland (Dutch; Flemish: 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]