From the Louvre to The Frick Collection: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds

painting of pastoral scene with idealized shepherds from classical antiquity clustering around an austere tomb

At a Glance

Exhibition
From the Louvre to The Frick Collection: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds
Dates
October 25, 1997 to January 25, 1998
Museum
The Frick Collection

1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021

Listing type
Past Exhibitions
Description

With extraordinary generosity, the Musée du Louvre loaned one of the most celebrated icons of French art: Nicolas Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds. This image of four shepherds solemnly meditating over the inscription they have discovered on a tomb — Et in Arcadia Ego (“Even in Arcadia [there] am I”) — has come to be regarded as the quintessence of the art of Poussin (1594-1665).

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