The Dream of Happiness

Last updated August 16, 2025

The Dream of Happiness is an allegorical oil on canvas painting by Constance Mayer and Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, now in the Louvre.^[1]

History

It was first exhibited as number 809 at the Paris Salon of 1819 and has remained in the French national collection ever since.^[2]

It shows a couple and their child in a boat rowed by Fortuna and steered by Cupid. Few of Mayer's sketches survived, but many of Prud'hon's have.^[3]

Studies
Prud'hon, Study of the Young Woman (1818), current location unknown.
Prud'hon, Cupid Holding the Steering Oars (1819), current location unknown
Prud'hon, Sketch (c. 1819), palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

References

↑ (in French) "Catalogue entry".
↑ (in French) "Salon notice".
↑ (in French) "Base Joconde entry".

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[1] (in French) "Catalogue entry".

[2] (in French) "Salon notice".

[3] (in French) "Base Joconde entry".

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