Victor Florence Pollet

Victor Florence Pollet (1811–1882) was a French history painter, watercolourist, and burin engraver.

[1] Pollet was a pupil of Paul Delaroche and Jules Richomme in Paris, and took courses at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

He won the Grand Prix de Rome for engraving in 1838 and went to Italy and trained under Ingres.

[2] He had already made a name for himself with a few drawings and engraved vignettes after Tony Johannot, Chenavard and Émile Wattier, as well as the plates of an Imitation de Jésus-Christ ('Imitation of Jesus Christ'), published in 1836.

[3] Pollet received several awards at the Paris Salon as a painter and engraver and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1855.