Briseis wipes her tears with a handkerchief while writing a love letter to Achilles. She sits in a chair decorated with the letters B and A, wears a veil and long gown, writing with quill pen at a lectern. Briseis adresse une epitre a Achille. France, beginning of 16th century. From Letter III, Briseis to Achilles. Epitres d'Ovide traduites ar Octavien de Saint-Gelais, Arsenal BLF 20, XVIe siecle. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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