Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Princess Blanche of Orleans, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the left of the image. Her hair is arranged in a chignon beneath a hair net. She is wearing a pale coloured garment, decorated at the neck with a large bow.

Princess Blanche was the fourth child of Louis, Duc de Nemours, and Victoire, daughter of Duke Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who died two weeks after her birth. In her letters to Queen Victoria, Blanche's aunt Princess Clemetine, mentions Blanche's poor health and difficult character. In 1932 Blanche died unmarried in Paris.