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. 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

Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet

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.

Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet

Pollet died in Paris.

Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet

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1814 births

1870 deaths

Artists from Palermo

19th-century Italian sculptors