Une Heure de la Nuit by Joseph Michel Ange Pollet (1814–1870)
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This miniature bronze sculpture is a reproduction of Pollet’s celebrated marble masterpiece Une Heure de la Nuit, one of which resides here at Anthony’s and another in the Louvre Museum in Paris. An exemplar of 19th-century Neoclassical sculpture, the work embodies one of the allegorical "hours" of the night, rendered with a poetic elegance that transcends time.
The figure represents a young woman unburdened by earthly concerns, her nudity symbolizing purity and liberation from the material world. She is depicted ascending toward the heavens in a state of awe and wonder, embodying the intangible and ethereal qualities of the night. Pollet’s sculpture is said to have inspired Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune, which musically interprets the work’s serene and otherworldly atmosphere, evoking the same sense of transcendence and quiet reverence for the beauty of the nocturnal world.
