diff --git a/taglib/toolkit/tvariant.cpp b/taglib/toolkit/tvariant.cpp
index 53926205..4ecd8ca2 100644
--- a/taglib/toolkit/tvariant.cpp
+++ b/taglib/toolkit/tvariant.cpp
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ class Variant::VariantPrivate
 {
 public:
   VariantPrivate() = default;
-  VariantPrivate(const StdVariantType &v) : data(v) {}
+  VariantPrivate(StdVariantType v) : data(std::move(v)) {}
   StdVariantType data;
 };