Study for the Head of the Rescuing Lover in Escape of the Heretic

Provenance

Sold, Christie’s, London, July 19, 1988, lot 102, to the Art Institute, 1988.

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Building a Collection: New Acquisitions and Promised Gifts of British Art," May 1–August 1, 2004, checklist 19.

Artist: Sir John Everett Millais / English, 1829-1896
Date: 1857
Medium: Graphite and red chalk, on cream wove paper (discolored from ivory) laid down on ivory
Dimensions: 25.3 × 19.1 cm (10 × 7 9/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: graphite
Place: England
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by T. Stanton Armour and William D. Shorey
Accession no.: 1988.310

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Sir John Everett Millais
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Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003747
Design for a Gothic Arch with the Artist and Effie Ruskin Embracing (recto); Design for a Gothic Arch with Effie as an Angel (verso)
Sir John Everett Millais
1853 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00005693
Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas from Virgil's "Aeneid"
Sir John Everett Millais
1843 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00012301
Portia
Sir John Everett Millais
1886 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00015418

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.