Louis-Léon Cugnot

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

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] Cugnot's work includes:

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