Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Carola, Queen Consort of Saxony in a vignette format. She is shown from a frontal viewpoint, facing the camera. Her hair is arranged in a braided chignon. She is wearing a white lace top, edged in black ribbon and has a large cross pendant on a black choker around her neck.

Carola was the daughter of the former Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden and Princess Louise Amelie of Baden. She was considered to be one of the most beautiful royal princesses of Europe. In 1853 she married Albrecht I, King of Saxony. They had no children.

As a Crown Princess, Carola became involved in humanitarian work, an activity that she continued as Queen Consort of Saxony. In 1866, she visited Saxony's field hospitals in Vienna and in 1867 she founded the Albert Commission, which contributed to the medical care of the German army during the war of 1870-1871. In recognition of this work she was decorated with the Prussian Luisen-Orden and the Saxon Order of Sidonia.