Carte-de-visite half length portrait of Helene, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, in a vignette format. The subject is leaning on the arm of an upholstered chair with her body shown from a frontal viewpoint and her head turned in profile towards the right of the image. Her hair is waved and arranged in a chignon. She is wearing a white dress with a V neckline and pleating at the cuffs.

Helene was a daughter of Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and his wife Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia. In 1891 Helene became the second wife of Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg and stepmother to his two daughters, Olga and Marie. Her own marriage to Albert was childless.