Marriage and Issue
He married three times:
- Julie Odevaere, relation of a painter and through her mother related to a Belgian family of artists - she is known via Mottez's portraits in oil and the Italian fresco in Lille
- Georgiana Page, whom Mottez married in the United Kingdom, and with whom he had a son (Henry Mottez, who also worked as a painter but died without issue)
- third wife, with whom he had another son, contre-amiral Jean Mottez (1866–1942), who became director of the fleet's military personnel, commander of the Mediterranean schools and sous-chef d'État-Major général of the Navy, and who had many descendents
Victor Mottez died on 7 June, 1897 in Bièvres.
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