|A partially clad woman, wearing only a white lace peignoir over a lace shift and numerous strings of pearls, fixes the viewer with a bold stare. However, it is not only the suggestive dress and seductive glance of the subject which confirm this as a love token in the oldest traditions of the portrait miniature. A fragment of writing paper preserved with the miniature bears a gilded monogram 'BI' and the motto: AMOR OMNIA VINCIT [Love Conquers All] as well as the inscription 'In coeur – ta Gialia.'

The miniature may depict a courtesan from the period c. 1870, possibly Giulia Beneni, known as 'La Barucci', with whom Albert Edward, Prince of Wales had a liaison in Paris in 1867. After her death, her brother extorted 6,000 francs from the Prince of Wales for the return of letters of a delicate nature which had been in her possession.