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Original ink drawing

Et In Arcadia Ego

Et In Arcadia Ego

Even in paradise,
death leaves its mark.

And beauty remembers.

The original is one of one — once collected, it never returns.

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The story behind

Three words nobody has explained in four hundred years.

In the 17th century, Nicolas Poussin painted shepherds gathered around a tomb bearing a strange inscription: ET IN ARCADIA EGO. The phrase is incomplete — broken Latin with no verb — and for four centuries scholars have argued about what it hides. A meditation on death? An anagram? Some say the painting encodes the location of a secret, and that its trail leads to a small village in the south of France called Rennes-le-Château.

This portrait puts the painter behind his own riddle: Poussin, watching us calmly over the tomb he made famous, like a man who knows exactly what the words mean — and painted them precisely so we never would.

Thousands of lines, drawn one by one.

A face built from crossed lines.

Three words, carved in ink.

Agus Sánchez drawing with an archival fineliner, gloved hand over hatched ink lines

The process

Drawn by hand. Nothing digital.

Each piece begins with an archival fineliner and weeks of hatching — thousands of intersecting strokes laid down one at a time, with no undo and no layers. There is no tablet and no filter at any stage of the original: heavyweight cotton paper, permanent lightfast ink. What you see is exactly what the pen left behind.

One drawing takes longer than most people spend reading the novel that inspired it.

Signed by the artist · Archival ink & paper · Carefully packed, ships worldwide

Which paper is used?

The original pieces are drawn in 100% cotton paper 300gsm, and the fine art prints are made on archival cotton paper designed to last for decades without fading.

When will my artwork arrive?

Each piece is prepared and packaged carefully before shipping.
Orders are usually prepared within 2–4 working days, and delivery times depend on your location. Tracked shipping is always included.

How is my artwork packed for shipping?

Every artwork is carefully packaged with two priorities in mind: protection and presentation. Unframed works travel flat between rigid boards; framed works are corner-protected and boxed.