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Louis Hottot is best remembered for his Orientalist sculpture which captures the European fascination with a romanticised historical imagining of the Middle East, as notably portrayed by the French painters Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904).
Louis Hottot, sculptor, is recorded by Benezit Dictionary of Artists to have died in 1906 and as a member of the ‘Société des Artistes Français’. He is listed by Baron Haussmann’s census as early as 1863 producing ‘bronzes d’imitation’ from premises at 10 rue de Crussol, Paris.
He exhibited at the 1867 Paris Exhibition in classe 22, for ‘bronzes d’art, fontes d’art diverses et ouvrages en métaux repoussés’. At the Palais des Champs-Élysées in 1886 he exhibited ‘La bonne soupe’, a statue in plaster, and ‘Rêverie’, a relief in plaster. By this time M. Hottot is Vice President de la Chambre syndicale du bronze-imitation. At the Salon of 1885, Hottot exhibited ‘Fille d’Egypte’ a statue in bronze polychrome of ‘grande charme pittoresque’.
