Portrait of Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes sitting in a velvet armchair next to a table with two books and in front of a red-draped skyscape. She holds a folded fan, has powdered hair, and wears a gold-sprigged white dress, fichu, and a structured belt. She also wears plentiful jewelery; a large gem bracelet, chatelaine, choker necklace, brooch, earrings, hair jewelery, and a feathered headdress with standing aigrette. An inscription in the top left corner reads "Dona Matilde Stoughton de Jaudenes-Esposa de Don Josef de Jaudenes, y Nebot Comisario Ordena-dor de los Reales Exercitos, de Su Magestad Catholica y su Ministro Embiado cerca de los Estados Unidos de America-- Nacio en la Ciudad de Nueva-York en los Estados Unidos el 11 de Enero de 1778". Above the inscription is a coat of arms: per pale first azure, a cross engrailed ermine [the Stoughton coat of arms], second gules, a fess argent, in chief three stars in fess or, a bundle of arrows fesswise reversed or [an unknown coat of arms].