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Four figures contemplate the inscription on a tomb in Arcadia. Etching by Etienne Picart after Nicolas Poussin, 1653.
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Four figures contemplate the inscription on a tomb in Arcadia. Etching by Etienne Picart after Nicolas Poussin, 1653.

Nicolas Poussin

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Lettering: Le souvenir de la mort au milieu des prosperitez de la vie. L'Arc̀adie est une contrée dont les poetes ont parlé coe d'un pays delicieux et par cette inscription on marque que celuy qui est dans le tombeau estant Arcadien n'a pas esté exempt de la mort.

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