Henri-Paul Motte
Henri-Paul Motte was a 19th-century French painter from Paris, who specialised in history painting and historical genre.
Motte was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme and began to exhibit at the Paris Salon from 1874 onwards. The painting Le cheval de Troie was the artist's début at the Salon, and was acquired by the Wadsworth Atheneum in 2011. In 1892 he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. He won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle. He is best known for his work of the Siege of La Rochelle, a depiction of Cardinal Richelieu in battle in the 17th century, completed in 1881.Works
- Le cheval de Troie
- Baal Moloch dévorant les prisonniers de guerre à Babylone
- Passage du Rhône par l'armée d'Annibal
- Circé et les compagnons d'Ulysse
- César s'ennuie
- Le Cardinal de Richelieu au siège de La Rochelle
- La fiancée de Bélus
- Vercingétorix se rend à César
- Les oies du Capitole
- Napoléon au trône de Charlemagne ''
