Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet

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.

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