Zeresh, wife of King Ahasuerus's favorite Haman, character in Racine's tragedy Esther, 1689. She wears two veils over braided hair, a blue mantle over pink robe, and stands in a paved garden. Zares. Hand-coloured copperplate engraving by Ridé 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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