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

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sculptor.

Pollet Achille et Déidamie Palais du Luxembourg

Pollet was born in

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and studied there under Valerio Villareale, then under

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and

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.Joseph Michel Ange Pollet in the

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Une heure de la nuit
copy sold at Sotheby's in New York 5 May 2011, lot 93, for 722,500 USD He was active at least 5 years in Belgium and won several medals at the

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: * 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

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in his studio by the Dutch portrait painter

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. File:SA 1636-Une heure de la nuit (cropped).jpg, ''Une heure de la nuit'' in Schwartze's 1853 portrait Pollet died in

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1814 births 1870 deaths Artists from Palermo 19th-century Italian sculptors {{Italy-sculptor-stub