Carte-de-visite full length photograph of Duchess Louise of Bavaria. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the right of the image. On the left of the scene there is an upholstered and gilded chair. The subject's hair is arranged in a centre parting beneath a close-fitting black bonnet. She is wearing a dark coloured silk paletot and full skirt, trimmed with lace at the cuffs and the bodice, with a white lace scarf, tied at the neck. She is holding a closed book in her hands.

Louise was the sixth child of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife, Karoline of Baden. In 1828 Louise married Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria and the couple had ten children.