Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Countess Mathilde of Trani, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the right of the image. Her hair is elaborately arranged in a chignon on the top of her head and she gazes downwards. She is wearing a white blouse, tied with a prominent bow under her chin, a mid-coloured garment and a multiple strand pearl necklace.

Mathilde was the fourth daughter of Duke Maximilian and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. In 1861, she married Count Lodovico of Trani and the couple had a single daughter.