Photograph of Princess Natalie Paley
Photography
Inventory number
2025.5.6.6.PH.CI.C1935.USDescription
Photograph of Princess Natalie PALEY waving, seated on the railing of the steamship SS Europa arriving to New York enroute to Hollywood from France. Her ensemble is composed of a long dark coat with a corsage, a light belted vest with a matching necktie, a long dark skirt, woven leather pumps, and a calot hat.Natalie PALEY (1905-1981) was a Russian princess, the granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II. She fled the Russian Revolution and went on to establish herself as a model in Paris throughout the 1930s, for Schiaparelli, Chanel, and Vogue. She would later appear in French and American films.