Abstract
This essay explores how Nicolas Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds (c. 1638�40) informed the discourse on burials and mourning that took place at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries in France, following the collapse of traditional religious rituals during the French Revolution. Specifically, this essay examines how The Arcadian Shepherdsserved as a model for a secular system of burials in which an imaginary Arcadia was conflated with the natural landscape of the French countryside and the garden cemetery.
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