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Salutat is an 1898 painting by Thomas Eakins (1844–1916). Based on a real-life boxing match that occurred in 1898 the work depicts a boxer waving to the crowd after the match. According to Eakins’ biographer Lloyd Goodrich Salutat is one of Eakins’ finest achievements in figure-painting. The painting’s title is Latin for He greets or He salutes.
