Charles Étienne Pierre MOTTE is a French lithographer and publisher, born in Paris on November 2, 1784 and died in Paris on December 5, 1836. Charles MOTTE obtained his patent allowing him to exercise the profession of lithographer printer on October 31, 1817. He was also one of the first printers to have obtained it, this measure having been implemented that same year. The taste for the macabre and the theme of the brevity of life specific to romanticism prompted him to lithograph certain engravings of the Renaissance, such as those of Hans BALDUNG. In 1827, he persuaded the young Eugène DELACROIX to illustrate the first French edition of the Faust by Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE, himself responsible for lithographing the plates and coloring them in watercolor. Charles MOTTE is the stepfather of Achille DEVERIA (who had married his daughter Céleste) and the grandfather of the Egyptologist Théodule Charles DEVERIA and the sinologist Jean-Gabriel DEVERIA (1844-1899). Charles MOTTE teaches lithography to the missionary Laurent IMBERT, who will import it to China. Motte's lithographic workshop collaborated in the printing of the Grammaire egyptienne by Champollion, but Charles MOTTE died in Paris on December 5, 1836, shortly after the printing of the first part. Céleste DEVERIA took over the estate from her father and was patented as a lithographer on December 14, 1837.