# The Fatherland under Threat \(La Patrie en Danger\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GÉRARD, François]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil and graphite on canvas, 86 x 96 cm ## Commentary The Fatherland under Threat \(La Patrie en Danger\) c. 1832 Oil and graphite on canvas, 86 x 96 cm Private collection This is an unfinished study for a large painting representing La Patrie en Danger painted by the artist on the commission of King Louis Philippe in 1832. The composition was ordered for the Salle de Sept Cheminées in the Louvre as a pendant to another grand painting of more recent history: the Lecture de la Déclaration des députeés proclamant le duc d'Orleans lieutenant géneral du royaume, 21 juillet 1830. The final painting, which is now in the deposits of Versailles, has not been shown for many years, and was left unfinished at the artist's death. ## Related artworks - [Belisarius]() - [Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples, and Her Children]() - [Corinne at Cape Miseno \(detail\)]() - [Corinne at Cape Miseno]() - [Corinne at Cape Miseno]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Jean-Baptist Isabey, Miniaturist, with his Daughter]() - [Madame Récamier]() - [Ossian Awakening the Spirits on the Banks of the Lora with the Sound of his Harp]() - [Portrait of Catherine Worlée, Princesse de Talleyrand-Périgord]() - [Portrait of Josephine]() - [Portrait of Madame Mère]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()