Stieler was the court painter to her father Maximilian, King of Bavaria from 1820.

The princess is shown wearing a yellow dress in the Empire silhouette style.

She is shown standing on a staircase of a veranda at the with Lake Tegernsee behind her.

Since 1817 Tegernsee Castle had been the summer residence of the Bavarian royal family, and Maximilian met Tsar Alexander and Emperor Francis there before the Congress of Verona.

[4] Amalie Auguste's husband succeeded to the throne as King of Saxony in 1854 and she became queen consort.