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).

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
2/04/1975	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation; coated
11/21/1985	Loan Consideration	examined for loan
11/16/2010	Treatment	cleaned; other

Exhibitions

• A Baltimorean in Paris: George A. Lucas, 1860-1909. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979.
• A Child's-Eye View. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2006.
• German Drawings from the Walters Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2010-2011.
• From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2014-2016.

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.

Inscriptions [Signature] Lower right in black: L. Knaus; [Date] Lower right in black: 1873

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters, 1878