Nicolas Poussin

Et in Arcadia Ego

US$ 627.00

Three shepherds and a woman gather around a stone tomb in an idyllic landscape, one of them tracing the carved Latin inscription with his finger. The phrase is usually read as death speaking — even in Arcadia, I am here — and the picture turns a pastoral idyll into a meditation on mortality. Poussin arranges the figures in a frieze-like band of almost sculptural stillness.

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Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) spent nearly his entire career in Rome, painting mythological and biblical subjects for a small circle of learned collectors rather than for churches or courts. He worked slowly and intellectually, sometimes arranging wax figures in a box to plan his compositions. French classicism claimed him as its founding master, and the Academy in Paris taught his work as doctrine for over a century.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 48 × 34 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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