Joseph Michel Ange Pollet

Place: Palermo

Born: 1814

Death: 1870

Biography:

Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet was an Italian sculptor.
Pollet was born in Palermo and studied there under Valerio Villareale, then under Bertel Thorvaldsen and Pietro Tenerani. He was active at least 5 years in Belgium and won several medals at the Paris Salon:
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.
Une heure de la nuit in Schwartze's 1853 portrait
Pollet died in Paris.

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