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English: Jean Mignon is documented as painter active at Fontainebleau in the late 1530s. By 1550, he was in Paris making prints after designs by the painter Luca Penni. This delightful term figure comes from a series of 20 plates featuring identifiable mythological figures as well as less specific flights of fancy. Though the lack of documented comparative material precludes precise dating, the relatively simple graphic means employed suggest that Mignon made them near the beginning of his career as an etcher, about 1543-44. Though early cataloguers categorized the prints in the term series as engravings by an anonymous artist, they are in fact etchings and fit rather well with other works attributed to Mignon. Precisely where they were made and who designed them remains unknown. Gertrude W. Weber, Charlottesville, Va.; gift to MFA 20 Sept., 2000. Gift of Gertrude B. Weber