Victor Florence Pollet

Victor Florence Pollet (1811–1882) was a French history painter, watercolourist, and burin engraver.Oliver, ed. 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2022.

Life

Victor Pollet was born in Paris on 22 November 1811. His brother A. Pollet was a wood engraver.

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.Beyer, Savoy, and Tegethoff, eds. 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2022. 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.

During his stay in Rome, he devoted himself instead to the study and to the practice of watercolour. His main works in this genre include: ''La Vénus'' ('Venus') and ''L'Amour profane et l'Amour sacré'' (' Sacred and Profane Love'), both after Titian, and ''La Naissance de Vénus'' ('The Birth of Venus'), after Ingres. According to the ''Grande Encyclopédie'', "these watercolours are quite remarkable in breadth and colour".Coughy 1900, p. 141.

Around 1849, he took up the chisel again and produced a series of engravings from famous paintings: the ''Jeanne d'Arc'' ('Joan of Arc') of Ingres, and the ''Bonaparte en Italie'' ('Bonaparte in Italy') of Raffet, among others. The Exposition Universelle of 1855 consecrated its fame. He also engraved the ''Mur de Salomon'' ('Wall of Solomon'), after Bida, in 1861.

He exhibited ''Lydée'', a watercolour, at the Salon of 1865. His other paintings include: ''L'innocence'' ('Innocence'), 1866; ''La Bacchante'' ('The Bacchante'), 1867; ''La Sieste et le Bain'' ('The Siesta and the Bath'), 1868; ''Paresse'' ('Sloth'), 1872; and ''Le Songe d'une fille d'Eve'' ('The Dream of a Daughter of Eve'), 1873.

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. He died in Mayenne, Mayenne on 11 December 1882, aged 71.

Collections

* Teylers Museum: ''Les Papillons'' ('The Butterflies'), watercolour.

Honours

* Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (1855)

Notes

References

* Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; and Tegethoff, Wolf, eds. (2021)
"Pollet, Victor Florence"
In ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon''. Berlin, New York: K. G. Saur. De Gruyter.
* Coughy, G. (1900)
"Pollet (Victor-Florence)"
In Dreyfus, Ferdinand-Camille and Berthelot, André (eds.). '' La Grande Encyclopédie: inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts'', Vol. 27: ''Poincaré–Rabbin''. Paris: Société anonyme de la grande encyclopédie. p. 141.
* Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011)
"Pollet, Victor Florence""Pollet, A."
In '' Benezit Dictionary of Artists''. Oxford University Press. Oxford Art Online.
* Somov, Andrei Ivanovich (1898)
"Pollet (Victor-Florence Pollet)"
In ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary'', Vol. 24: ''Obada–Prusik''. St. Petersburg: F. A. Brockhaus and I. A. Efron. p. 436.
* Vollmer, Hans, ed. (1933). "Pollet, Victor Florence". In '' Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Vol. 27: ''Piermaria–Ramsdell''. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. p. 218.

"Nécrologie"
''La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité'', No. 39. (16 December 1882). p. 302.

"Nouvelles des arts"
''Journal des artistes'', Vol. 2. No. 11. (9 September 1838). p. 153.

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1811 births
1882 deaths
19th-century French painters
19th-century French engravers
19th-century French male artists
Knights of the Legion of Honour
French male painters
Painters from Paris
Engravers from Paris