The Spinner Of Procida, After Louis Léon Cugnot, Statue

Louis Léon CUGNOT (1835-1894) after, SALIN Foundry. The Spinner of Procida Important cast iron subject representing a young spinner from an Italian village of Procida, wearing a draped dress and holding in her hand a woolen thread from her skein. Around 1870. H.172 x W.79 cm, Base: L. 35 x D. 35 cm. French sculptor, Louis Léon CUGNOT is the son of the sculptor Etienne Cugnot. A pupil of Georges Diebold (1816-1861) and Francisque Duret (1804-1865), he won the 1st Prix de Rome in 1859, tied with Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900). He was therefore a resident of the Villa Medici in Rome from 1860 to 1863. Cugnot received numerous official commissions to decorate the most illustrious buildings in the city of Paris: two allegories depicting the Law for the Palais de Justice, Le Patriotisme au Louvre , Paving and Gas at the Opera, the caryatids at the Hôtel de Ville, Saint-Luc for the Church of the Trinity and La Science for the Sorbonne. He also collaborates with art foundries: with the Salin foundry. he made the allegorical figures for the Town Hall of Bayonne and took over the Spinner of Procida in cast iron. He received several medals, notably at the Universal Exhibition of 1867. His works are famous; one finds at the Musée d'Orsay his statue of Corvbante stifling the cries of Jupiter as a child, exhibited until 1981 in the Tuileries gardens.