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French sculptor
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:
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
^ Magazine of Art , Volume 17, edited by Marion Harry Spielmann, September 1894, p. 48.
^
Clara Erskine Clement Waters and
Laurence Hutton , Artists of the nineteenth century and their works: A handbook ... , Volumes 1-2, 1889, p. 176.
^ La Commune de Paris, révolution sans images?: politique et représentations ...by Bertrand Tillier, page 417
^ Magazine of Art , Volume 17, edited by Marion Harry Spielmann, September 1894, p. 48.
^
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