Which French Baroque painter painted 'Et in Arcadia ego'?

Nicolas Poussin painted “Et in Arcadia ego,” also known as “The Arcadian Shepherds.” The best-known version dates to 1637–1638 and shows idealized classical shepherds gathered around a tomb bearing the Latin inscription “Et in Arcadia ego.”

The phrase is commonly understood as a reminder that death exists even in Arcadia, the imagined pastoral land of perfect happiness. Poussin turns that memento mori into a quiet act of investigation: the shepherds trace the inscription while a woman observes, linking idyllic beauty with human mortality.

Poussin actually painted two versions of the subject. The earlier work, produced around 1627, is at Chatsworth House; the later and more famous canvas is in the Louvre. Although Poussin was French, his mature career unfolded largely in Rome, where his classical compositions strongly influenced later academic painting.