The Dream of Happiness

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

[1] 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] This article about a nineteenth-century painting is a stub.