Louis Léon Cugnot

Place: Paris

Born: 1835

Death: 1894

Biography:

Louis-Léon Cugnot was a French sculptor.
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. 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.
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