Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin waɗannan shekarun ya kasance yana yawan zuwa salon Bertins, tare da manyan marubutan da masu zane-zane na lokacin (zane-zanen sa don hoton Victor Hugo ya tsira). Ya samar da frescoes guda biyu don wannan salon, wanda aka lalata a 1854. Bayan Juyin Juya Halin 1848
Mottez ya tashi zuwa Burtaniya, inda ya samar da hotuna da yawa na mashahuran Burtaniya da kuma minista François Guizot, waɗanda aka baje kolin su a Royal Academy salons. Ya kasance kyakkyawan mai daukar hoto a duk tsawon aikinsa kuma wannan shine abin da ya fi shagaltar da shi a cikin shekarun ƙarshe na aikinsa. Ya koma Faransa a shekara ta 1853 kuma ya yi aiki tare da Delacroix a Église Saint-Sulpice, a farkon shekarun 1860, inda salon da suka saba da juna ya nuna gwagwarmaya tsakanin ra'ayoyin neo-classical da romantic. Maurice Denis yayi la'akari da waɗannan frescoes a St-Sulpice (wani "Saint Martin") a matsayin "wanda ba za a iya mantawa da shi ba". Ya tsara gilashin gilashin gilashi a cikin église Saint-Maurice de Lille.