Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet (1814–1870) was an Italian sculptor.
Pollet was born in Palermo and studied there under Valerio Villareale, then under Bertel Thorvaldsen and Pietro Tenerani.[1][2] He was active at least 5 years in Belgium and won several medals at the Paris Salon:
- a bronze medal in 1847
- a silver medal in 1848
- a gold medal in 1851
- a silver medal in 1855
His Une heure de la nuit was well received in 1848 and many copies were made in plaster, bronze and marble. A plaster cast of it is featured in a portrait of the Amsterdam collector Abraham Willet in his studio by the Dutch portrait painter Johan Georg Schwartze.
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Une heure de la nuit in Schwartze's 1853 portrait
Pollet died in Paris.
References
- ^ Joseph Michel Ange Pollet in the RKD
- ^ Une heure de la nuit, copy sold at Sotheby's in New York 5 May 2011, lot 93, for 722,500 USD
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