Mignon is the Italian girl in Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship who falls in love with the young apprentice. She sings her famous love song ‘Know’st thou the land where the fair citron blows ...’. But
her love was not reciprocated and she became insane and died. When this work was exhibited at the Royal Academy the artist, Elizabeth Armstrong, had recently married the leading painter of the Newlyn school, Stanhope
Forbes.
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