The couple is centered in the middle plane in a closed room. Heitor Villa-Lobos is shaving while Arminda is at his side. On this occasion the couple was at their room at the Hotel Alrae in New York, where they stayed when making annual trips to the United States, on this occasion the penultimate. In 1958, the year of this photograph, the composer and his wife Arminda Villa-Lobos made the penultimate trip to the country.