Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.
Signed on the front.
This portrait is based on a bust of the Roman Emperor Commodus. Commodus was the son of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and was the first emperor to be born into the purple, that is, born while his father ruled as emperor. He was known to have been left handed and was obsessed with gladiatorial combat even performing as a gladiator in the Flavian Amphitheatre (the Colloseum) which completely shocked and outraged the Senatorial class and many average Romans themselves.