Portrait of Rosa Ponselle in an elegant wrap, perhaps an opera cloak, with a very high collar. The cloak and collar appear to be ermine, fringed with black-tipped ermine tails. She is wearing a multilayered, bib-style jeweled necklace, long, dangling earrings and a jeweled cloche hat or headpiece. She is gazing, unsmiling, to her left, as if into the distance. The photograph is signed.