Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Bernhard II, the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the left of the image. The base of a classical marble column is visible on the right of the image. The subject has receding hair and a full moustache. He is wearing a white wing collar shirt, a black silk cravat, and a dark coloured jacket and double-breasted frock coat.