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The Trojan Horse by Henri-Paul Motte
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Artist: Henri-Paul Motte
The wooden horse at the gate of Troy at dusk, enormous and bronze-coloured, with the crowd tiny beneath it: Motte’s painting is the image most people have in their heads of the Trojan Horse.
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Henri-Paul Motte, a French academic painter who specialised in scenes from antiquity, painted the Trojan Horse in 1874 as an object rather than a story: a colossal horse of dark timber and bronze standing at the gate of Troy at the end of the day, with the Trojans gathered beneath it like ants and the light going. Nothing is happening yet. That is the tension of the picture, and the reason it has been reproduced in schoolbooks and histories for a hundred and fifty years: it is the horse as everyone imagines it, before the night.
Motte was a pupil of Gérôme and painted with the same polished, archaeological exactness. Our hand-painted reproduction is made in oil on canvas from the original, in its wide format.
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