Mirror-symmetrical studio bust portrait of a beautiful man with a strong jaw, high cheekbones and a shaved head, shoulders square to the lens, on bottle green ground that darkens into the top corners. Two long strands of jade beads falling from the ears to the chest, framing the face like two columns. A lace edge over a canvas smock over a vermillion knit, three layers readable at the neck at once. Turquoise acetate with the eyes and the freckles readable through it and darkened by it. One large frontal soft source, even light, small hard speculars on metal and on a glossed lip. The same hue carried onto the mouth so eye, cheek and lip are one colour, densely freckled. One thin dark line at the lash root and the rest left soft. Cropped at the chest. Composed, closed and unamused, holding perfectly still.