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. 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. Pollet died in Paris