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French sculptor
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:
- Drunken Faun, bronze, in the gardens of the
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, 1863
- marble figure of
Petrarch, at the
Hôtel de la Païva, Paris, circa 1863
- Napoleon seated on an eagle dominating the world, plaster, at the
Musée d'Orsay, 1869
- the 1871 tomb of Generals
Jacques Léon Clément-Thomas and
Claude Lecomte, two of the first casualties of the
Paris Commune, in the 4th division of
Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, with architect Ernest Coquart
[3]
- Monument to the
Battle of Callao, with a finial figure of
Nike, historical and allegorical bronzes, and friezes of the battle, for
Plaza Dos de Mayo,
Lima, Peru, circa 1873
- interior allegorical figures of Paving and Gas for the
Palais Garnier, Paris, circa 1874
- pediment figures of Justice and Strength in the
Court of Cassation, Paris,
[4] circa 1879
- Young Jupiter, a cast bronze copy dated 1886, at the
Seventh Regiment Armory,
Upper East Side, New York City
- two bronze medallions for the grave of Pierre-Alexandre Lafabrègue and his wife,
Père Lachaise Cemetery
[5]
- four monumental vases representing the four seasons, in the gardens of the
Bourges Cathedral
References
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^ Magazine of Art, Volume 17, edited by Marion Harry Spielmann, September 1894, p. 48.
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Clara Erskine Clement Waters and
Laurence Hutton, Artists of the nineteenth century and their works: A handbook ..., Volumes 1-2, 1889, p. 176.
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^ La Commune de Paris, révolution sans images?: politique et représentations ...by Bertrand Tillier, page 417
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^ Magazine of Art, Volume 17, edited by Marion Harry Spielmann, September 1894, p. 48.
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