# Mignon [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SCHADOW, Wilhelm von]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 119 x 92 cm ## Commentary In the Romantic period, beside the maternal, womanly woman a new form of idealization appeared, "the eternal feminine being", who, according to Goethe "drew man upward". First she appears as the sum of noble qualities, as in Mignon by Wilhelm von Schadow - angelically pure, artistic but pensive. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of a Young Roman Woman \(Angelina Magtti\)]() - [The Holy Family beneath the Portico]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()