Abel Mignon
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December 2, 1861
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| Born | Justin-Abel-François Mignon December 2, 1861 |
| Died | January 30, 1936 (aged 74) |
| Resting place | Fontainebleau cemetery |
| Known for | Engraving postage stamps and posters |
| Notable work | Le Travail, Caisse d’Amortissement postage stamp |
| Family | Yvonne Bouisset-Mignon |
| Awards | Legion of Honour 1908 |
Abel Mignon (2 December 1861 – 30 January 1936) was a French artist and engraver. He engraved postage stamps for France, its colonies and for Czechoslovakia, as well as posters and currency. He studied at the Paris Académie des Beaux-Arts and was a Legion of Honour awardee.
Justin Abel François Xavier Mignon was born in Bordeaux on 2 December 1861.[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. He was admitted to the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1882, attempted the prix de Rome scholarship, and in 1884 won the second grand prix for engraving.[1]
Mignon was married and had a daughter, Yvonne Bouisset-Mignon (1891-1978), who also had a career in engraving and was married to Firmin Bouisset.[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]
