Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Duke Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the right of the image. He has fair, wavy hair arranged in a centre parting and is clean shaven. He is wearing a white shirt with a turn down collar, a thin black bow tie and a mid-coloured marled sack jacket the lapels of which are edged in darker coloured silk. He is holding a cigar in his right hand.

Maximilian was the tenth and youngest child of Duke Maximilian Joseph and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. He was a Lieutenant General in the Bavarian army. In 1875 he married Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the couple had three sons.