Abel Mignon

[1] During his youth Mignon composed poems in association with Léonce Burret, Charles Fuster and Lucien Schnegg.

[2] He studied painting with Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alfred Loudet, and Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont was his engraving professor.

[3] On 30 January 1936 Mignon died at Fontainebleau and is interred there; his tomb features a bronze medallion portrait executed by Charles Virion.

[4] Mignon's debut was at the Salon des artistes français in 1887, where he exhibited wood engravings in the style of Édouard Toudouze.

[7] From 1913 he engraved postage stamps for the French colonies in Africa, such as Dahomey, Guyana, Madagascar,[9] some in the style of works by Joseph de La Nézière and from 1920 after Paul Albert Laurens and Jules Chaplain for the French post office.

1928 Le Travail Caisse d’Amortissement stamp
Poster for 6th National Loan in 1920