Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to left with eyes to front. Features in brown and sanguine, hatched diagonally with blue-grey, heavily impasted with gouache, and with black and touches of white and ochre in the eyes, on a thin, warm carnation ground; hair in dark brown washes with grey gouache in the curls and highlights, also over the carnation; costume in black, modelled and with the lights in grey gouache; background a plain greenish wash, hatched with darker colour to right, and apparently darkened in the margins; on vellum relaid on pasteboard.

Frame: Nineteenth-century gilt-brass rim of narrow half-round section, with a toothed copper closure strip soldered to the back, bent over the miniature which is inscribed: NO.II / French period / of Louis 13th / unknown, with the printed label of the Magniac Collection, numbered 312.