After an apprenticeship at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, Alfred Finot joined the studio of sculptor Barrias at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1895. As a portraitist, Alfred Finot produced numerous busts and medallions of local personalities. In the field of statuary, he was the author of several monumental compositions, some of which were commissioned by Eugène Corbin (high reliefs for the Magasins Réunis, sculptures for the Corbin tomb) or resulting from a public subscription (monument to the painter Sellier). His statuettes and decorative objects (vases, inkwells, paper trays) of symbolist or naturalist inspiration were produced in ceramics by the Mougin brothers and in Rambervillers (S.A.P.C.R.), in bronze by the jeweller Séverin Ronga (1857-1931) and in pâte de verre by Amalric Walter (1870-1959).

In Nancy, you can still see the monument to the painter Sellier (Parc de la Pépinière, 1901) ; in the Préville cemetery, the tombs of the Adam (1900), Corbin (1901), Schertzer (1910) and Gillet-Lafond (1925) families.

He was a member of the École de Nancy steering committee from 1901.