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    "localId": "17414",
    "label": "Mud Pies",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.21"
}

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    "id": "17414",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.21",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mud Pies",
    "description": "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 museum in 1982 (Walters 37.2601).",
    "provenance": "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.",
    "date": "1873 (Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.21",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.21_Fnt_TR_C80II.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.21_Fnt_TR_C80II.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 64.4,
            "height": 109.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 25 3/8 x W: 43 1/16 in. (64.4 x 109.4 cm); Framed H: 40 7/16 × W: 57 3/4 × D: 5 5/16 in. (102.7 × 146.7 × 13.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower right in black: L. Knaus; [Date] Lower right in black: 1873",
    "RelatedObjects": 8101,
    "med": "oil on canvas",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5046"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2152",
        "484",
        "2832",
        "3300"
    ]
}

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