Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Count Lodovico of Trani, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the left of the image. He has dark, receding hair and a mutton chop beard. He is wearing a white shirt with a stand up collar, a black silk cravat fastened with two decorative pins and an overcoat with wide Persian lamb lapels.

Lodovico was the eldest son of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. In 1861 Louis married Duchess Mathilde Ludovika of Bavaria and the couple had a single daughter.