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.

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

Sir John Everett Millais

1857

Accession Number

72368

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.)

Classification

graphite

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by T. Stanton Armour and William D. Shorey

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