Jean Mignon

Jean Mignon was a French artist in painting and printmaking in the 16th century, active from 1537 to the mid-1550s. He worked in etching, sometimes supplemented by engraving, and was one of the first group of artists in France to use etching for prints. He was part of the burst of activity in the 1540s associated with the First School of Fontainebleau. At least half of his prints, over thirty, use compositions by the Italian painter Luca Penni, who was also at the palace from 1537 through to the 1540s.