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Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet

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Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet
Born1814
Died1870
NationalityKingdom of Italy

Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet (1814–1870) was an Italian sculptor.

Achilles and Deidamia

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.

Pollet died in Paris.

References

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  1. ^ Joseph Michel Ange Pollet in the RKD
  2. ^ Une heure de la nuit, copy sold at Sotheby's in New York 5 May 2011, lot 93, for 722,500 USD