Louis-Léon Cugnot

Monument to Jacques Léon Clément-Thomas and Claude Lacombe, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
allegorical figures of Paving and Gas, foyer of the Palais Garnier, Paris

Louis-Léon Cugnot (Paris 17 October 1835 19 August 1894) was a French sculptor.

Life

Cugnot was born in Paris, son of the sculptor Etienne Cugnot. He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the 1850s under teachers Francisque Joseph Duret and Georges Diebolt.[1] Cugnot took the Prix de Rome in 1859 along with co-winner Alexandre Falguière, and was a pensioner of the Villa Medici in Rome from 1860 to 1863.

In 1874 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor.[2]

Work

Cugnot's work includes:

References

  1. Magazine of Art, Volume 17, edited by Marion Harry Spielmann, September 1894, p. 48.
  2. Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the nineteenth century and their works: A handbook ..., Volumes 1-2, 1889, p. 176.
  3. La Commune de Paris, révolution sans images?: politique et représentations ...by Bertrand Tillier, page 417
  4. Magazine of Art, Volume 17, edited by Marion Harry Spielmann, September 1894, p. 48.
  5. http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=2569
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