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 1819 Paris Salon 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 have survived, but many of Prud'hon's.[3]
- Studies
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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[edit]
- ^ (in French) "Catalogue entry".
- ^ (in French) "Salon notice".
- ^ (in French) "Base Joconde entry".