Painted photograph of a portrait. The portrait shows a young woman wearing a high-waisted, black dress with puffed sleeves and a high, white fall collar embellished with lace. The portrait is cut in an oval and pasted onto a white mat, with two lines of gilding tracing the outline of the applied portrait. The whole is framed in a gilded oval frame embellished on the top, bottom and sides with molded melons and vines.