Carte-de-visite head and shoulders portrait of Caroline the Duchess of Berry, in a vignette format. She is shown from a frontal viewpoint, facing the camera. Her hair is arranged in a centre parting beneath a white bonnet, trimmed with gathered lace, whose ribbons fall across her shoulders. She is wearing a mid-coloured silk dress with a white collar, fastened up the front with a row of gilt buttons.  

Caroline was the daughter of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his first wife, Maria Clementina of Austria. In 1816 she married King Louis XVIII of France's nephew, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry and the couple had a son.