Henri-Paul Motte

Henri-Paul Motte (13 December 1846 – 1 April 1922) was a French painter from Paris, who specialised in history painting and historical genre.

Motte was a pupil of

Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. He won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900). He is best known for his work of the Siege of La Rochelle, a depiction of Cardinal Richelieu

Works

Le cheval de Troie (The Trojan horse) (1874; Wadsworth Atheneum, 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)
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 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)

Richelieu on the sea wall of La Rochelle, 1881
Hannibal's army crossing the Rhône, 1878
Battle of Zama, 1890
Vercingetorix surrendering to Caesar, 1892
The geese of the Capitol
Swiss Guards on the grand staircase of the palace during the
storming of the Tuileries in 1792
Caesar is bored
The Israelites dancing around the
Golden Calf
The Fiancée of Belus