Henri-Paul Motte (13 December 1846 – 1 April 1922) was a French painter from

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, who specialised in history painting and historical genre. Motte was a pupil of

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ra ...

and began to exhibit at the Paris Salon from 1874 onwards. The painting ''Le cheval de Troie (The Trojan horse)'' was the artist's début at the Salon, and was acquired by the

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in 2011. In 1892 he was made a

Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon B ...

. He won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900). He is best known for his work of the

Siege of La Rochelle The siege of La Rochelle (, or sometimes ) was a result of a war between the French royal forces of Louis XIII of France and the Huguenots of La Rochelle in 1627–28. The siege marked the height of the struggle between the Catholics and the Pr ...

, a depiction of Cardinal Richelieu in battle in the 17th century, completed in 1881.

Works

*''Le cheval de Troie (The Trojan horse)'' (1874;

, Hartford, Connecticut) *''Baal Moloch dévorant les prisonniers de guerre à Babylone (Baal Moloch devouring the prisoners of war in Babylon)'' (1876;

National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers The National Museum of Fine Arts in Algiers (french: Musée national des Beaux-Arts d'Alger) is one of the largest art museums in Africa. Opened to the public since 5 May 1930, it is located in the Hamma district, next to the Hamma test gar ...

) *''Passage du Rhône par l'armée d'Annibal (Hannibal's army crossing the Rhône)'' (1878) *''Circé et les compagnons d'Ulysse (Circe and the companions of Ulysses)'' (1879) *''César s'ennuie'' (1880) *''Richelieu sur la digue de La Rochelle (Richelieu on the sea wall of La Rochelle)'' (1881; Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle) *'' La fiancée de Bélus'' (The Fiancee of Belus)'' (1885) *''Vercingétorix se rend à César (

Vercingetorix Vercingetorix (; Greek: Οὐερκιγγετόριξ; – 46 BC) was a Gallic king and chieftain of the Arverni tribe who united the Gauls in a failed revolt against Roman forces during the last phase of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. Despite ha ...

surrenders to Caesar)'' (1886) *''Les oies du Capitole ( The geese of the Capitol)'' (1889) *''Napoléon au trône de Charlemagne (Napoleon at Charlemagne's Throne)'' (1898)

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1846 births 1922 deaths Painters from Paris 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists Knights of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub