Live Auction 7842Old Masters and 19th Century Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 67

Angelica Kauffman, R.A. (Chur, Graubünden 1741-1807 Rome)

Et in Arcadia ego

Closed30 April 2010

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GBP 55,250

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Angelica Kauffman, R.A. (Chur, Graubünden 1741-1807 Rome)
Et in Arcadia ego
signed 'Angelica Kauffman Pinx.' (centre left) and inscribed 'ET IN ARCADIA EGO' (central right)
oil on canvas
40½ x 50¾ in. (102.8 x 120.9 cm.)

Given by the artist to George Keate (1729-1797), writer and painter (50 gns.).

Specialist note

This painting illustrates a scene in George Keate's play The Monument in Arcadia (1773), when the elderly shepherd Dorastus is reunited with his daughter Euphemia, who was abducted by Spartans as an infant. It was painted in Rome in May 1790 for Keate, who was a friend of the artist.