Mud Pies

1873 (Modern)

109.4 cm 64.4 cm

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This evening scene showing a girl seated on a log watching children making mudpies was painted while Knaus was living in Dusseldorf, Germany. In the background, a swineherd tends his pigs. A preparatory sketch for the child in the center of composition was acquired by the muse...

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Anton Ritter von Oeltzelt, Vienna (date and mode of acquisition unknown); sale, 1878, no. 35; purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, November 18, 1878 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 465.
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