Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, character in Jean Racine's Trojan War tragedy Iphigénie or Iphegenia, 1674. In diadem, hair in curls, crimson mantle, white robe, holding a letter in a military encampment. Clytemnestre. 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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