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Louis-Léon Cugnot (

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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

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in the 1850s under teachers

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and Georges Diebolt. Cugnot took the

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in 1859 along with co-winner

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, and was a pensioner of the

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in Rome from 1860 to 1863. In 1874 he was made a Knight of the

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Work

Cugnot's work includes: * ''Drunken Faun'', bronze, in the gardens of the

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, 1863 * marble figure of

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, at the Hôtel de la Païva, Paris, circa 1863 * ''Napoleon seated on an eagle dominating the world'', plaster, at the

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, 1869 * the 1871 tomb of Generals

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and Claude Lecomte, two of the first casualties of the

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, in the 4th division of

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in Paris, with architect Ernest Coquart * Monument to the

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, with a finial figure of

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, historical and allegorical bronzes, and friezes of the battle, for Plaza Dos de Mayo,

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, circa 1873 * interior allegorical figures of ''Paving'' and ''Gas'' for the

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, Paris, circa 1874 * pediment figures of ''Justice'' and ''Strength'' in the

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, Paris, circa 1879 * ''Young Jupiter'', a cast bronze copy dated 1886, at the

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, New York City * two bronze medallions for the grave of Pierre-Alexandre Lafabrègue and his wife,

* four monumental vases representing the four seasons, in the gardens of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cugnot, Louis-Leon 1835 births 1894 deaths École des Beaux-Arts alumni Sculptors from Paris Knights of the Legion of Honour French architectural sculptors Prix de Rome for sculpture 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists