Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Princess Maria del Pilar of Spain, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the right of the image. Her hair is arranged in a centre parting and decorated with a ribbon. She is wearing drop earrings and an oval pendant on a black choker around her neck. She is wearing a pale coloured dress.

Maria was the sixth of the nine children born to Queen Isabel II of Spain and Francis of Asis of Bourbon. She died from tuberculosis at the age of eighteen.