File:Leighton-hit.jpg

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Name: "Hit" by Lord Frederic Leighton. A painting shown at the great Paris Exhibition of 1900.

Original oil painting was in color.

Source: The Art Journal, special edition book named "The Paris Exhibition 1900" (published 1900). London, H. Virtue & Co. Eds.: D. Croal Thomson, Herbert E. Butler, and E.G. Halton.

Related works by the same artist: "The Daphnephoria", and "The Music Lesson".

Both the original work, and its 1900 reproduction seen here, are in the public domain due to the age of the work(s).

Frederic Leighton  (1830–1896)
	Description	English-British painter, sculptor, politician and drawer
	Date of birth/death	3 December 1830	25 January 1896
	Location of birth/death	Scarborough	London
	Work period	circa 1855-1896
	Work location	London; City of Brussels; Paris; Frankfurt; Rome; Algiers; Constantinople; Aswan; Damascus
	Authority file	: Q160252 VIAF: 18031604 ISNI: 0000000083396135 ULAN: 500030022 LCCN: n80079496 NLA: 35556809 WorldCat

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