Et in Arcadia ego (also known as The Arcadian Shepherds) is an oil-on-canvas painting created c. 1618–1622 by the Italian Baroque artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino).

The painting shows two young shepherds staring at a skull, with a mouse and a blowfly, placed onto a cippus with the words "Et in Arcadia ego" (Also in Paradise I am).

The iconography of the memento mori theme symbolised in art by the skull was rather popular in Rome and Venice since Renaissance times.

[1] Mentioned for the first time in the collection of Antonio Barberini in 1644, the painting was later acquired by Colonna of Sciarra (1812), being attributed to Bartolomeo Schedoni until 1911.

Hans Christian Andersen's "Improvisatoren" (1835) in chapter 13 two of the main characters discuss the painting, reflecting the attribution to Schedoni believed at that time.