Portrait:

The Concuspidor cuts a dashing figure, posing victoriously and courageously over a ferocious lion beast.

Naturally, it was commissioned by the Concuspidor himself, in the studio of a renowned artist in a faraway Eastern city. The lion was real, though paralysed with a powerful native drug for the duration of the session. The Concuspidor removed the completed work of art from the premises of the painter, who had become similarly inactive after some of the drug had, mysteriously, slipped into his easel-side drink. That the commission fee remains, to this day, unsettled, is part of the same mystery.