Eriphyle, daughter of Helen and Theseus, character in Racine's Trojan War tragedy Iphigénie, 1674. With hair in braids and ribbons, bronze robe, Eriphile stabs herself to death on an altar. Her handmaids try to help The bloody dagger lies on the ground. Ériphile. 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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