Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet

Born in Palermo, Italy, Joseph Pollet worked in Paris and was granted the Legion d’honneur in 1856. He was predominantly inspired by historical, ecclesiastical, classical, and allegorical subjects. The present elegant nude, gracefully raising her arms above her head and lifted of the ground, is one of Pollet's most famed sculptures and has been reproduced in marble, bronze, and plaster. The first bronze version of the model was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in 1855, which was edited in various sizes by the foundry of Colin. 

RELATED LITERATURE

S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l’Ecole Francaise au dix-neuvieme siècle, Paris, 1916, vol. 4, p. 93; A. Le Normand-Romain, A. Pingeot and L. de Margerie, Catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures, Paris, 1986, p. 208