Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet | |
Birth Date: | 1814 |
Birth Place: | Palermo |
Death Date: | 1870 |
Death Place: | Paris |
Nationality: | Kingdom of Italy |
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:
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.