Cephisa, confidante of Andromache in Jean Racine's tragedy Andromaque. With her hair in braids and ribbons, veil, short tunic, long robe, holding an offering and garland before a statue of Hermes in petasos with caduceus in a garden. Céphise, 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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