Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Princess Maria de la Paz 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 seventh of the nine children born to Queen Isabel II of Spain and Francis of Asis of Bourbon. In 1883 she married Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria and the couple had three children.