Et in Arcadia ego
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![Guercino's version of the subject.](/Images/godic/202501/12/Et-in-Arcadia-ego0320.jpg")
![Poussin's 1627 version of the Arcadian Shepherds, in Chatsworth House, depicting a different tomb with the same inscription.](/Images/godic/202501/12/Poussin16270320.jpg")
![The Shugborough relief, adapted from an engraving of Poussin's second version.](/Images/godic/202501/12/Shugborough_arcadia0320.jpg")
Et in Arcadia ego (also known as Les bergers d'Arcadie or The Arcadian Shepherds) is a 1637–38 painting by Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). It depicts a pastoral scene with idealized shepherds from classical antiquity clustering around an austere tomb. It is held in the Louvre, Paris.