[Ricardo Palma at the National Library of Peru]

Portrait of the writer Ricardo Palma, three quarters, from the front, seated, foreshortened, with a long mustache and glasses, hairstyle parted on the side, dressed in a shirt, tie and jacket fastened with only one button. Palma is posing with a book clutched in his left hand, resting his arm on a decorative coffee table, which matches the chair covered with a decorative furniture cushion.