Engraving The entrance to the port of Marseille (1754) - Claude-Joseph Vernet

Painter and engraver, Abel Mignon is a pupil of the painters Gérôme and de Loudet, and, for engraving, of Professor Henriquet-Dupont. In 1884, he won first second prize at the Rome competition. His debut at the Paris Motor Show dates back to 1887. A two-time winner of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (1903 and 1923), he was made a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1908.
He then accumulated the presidencies of engraver with a chisel, of the jury, engraving section, of the Salon des Artistes Français, and then became a member of the jury, decorative arts section. After a failure in the political field, the artist devoted himself to the production of posters, banknotes and postage stamps. He engraves about ten stamps for France and many issues for countries such as Dahomey, Guyana, Madagascar, Morocco, Senegal, Czech Republic...

In 1753, Abel-François Poisson de Vandières, Marquis de Marigny, future director of the Bâtiments de Louis XV, commissioned 24 paintings from Ports de France in Vernet to inform about life in the ports, but only fourteen paintings were made from 1753 to 1762. These paintings are true testimonies of life in the ports 250 years ago and make him one of the greatest painters in the navy.
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