Alfred Finot was a French sculptor, born in Nancy on October 14, 1876, and passed away in Froville on January 11, 1947. He trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy under Ernest Bussière before continuing his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the workshop of Louis-Ernest Barrias.

In 1897, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and participated in the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Nancy in 1904 with his work La jeunesse passe. A founding member of the board of the École de Nancy in 1901, he actively contributed to the influence of the Art Nouveau movement.

A skilled portraitist, he created numerous busts of local personalities and several monumental compositions, including Art and Industry and Work and Science, commissioned by Eugène Corbin for the Magasins Réunis in Nancy. He also sculpted the monument to Charles Sellier (1901-1903) and the monument to Victor Lemoine (1926) in Nancy.

Some of his works were produced in pâte de verre by Daum and Almaric Walter, or in ceramics by the Mougin brothers. His art embodies the elegance and innovation characteristic of the École de Nancy.