Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Duke Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the left of the image. He has short fair, wavy hair and a small moustache. He is wearing military uniform with a mandarin collar, epaulettes and decorated with a double row of gilt buttons up the front.  

Bernhard was the eldest son of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen and his first wife Princess Charlotte Frederica of Prussia. In 1878 he married Princess Charlotte of Prussia and the couple had one daughter, Princess Feodora.