Follower of Orestes, son of Agamemnon, character in Jean Racine's tragedy Andromache (Andromaque). A naked warrior covered in a blue mantle follows Orestes in mantle and short tunic and boots as he disembarks from a galley filled with soldiers. On the shore an anchor, cups, urns, armour. Suite d'Oreste. Hand-coloured copperplate engraving by Pierre-Michel Alix after an illustration by Philippe Chéry from Jean-Charles Le Vacher de Charnois’s Recherches sur les Costumes et sur les Theatres de Toutes les Nations, M. Drouhin, Paris, 1790.

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