Photograph of Princess Natalie Paley
Photography
Inventory number
2025.5.6.7.PH.CI.C1935.USDescription
Photograph of Princess Natalie PALEY waving from the deck of the steamship S.S. Europa enroute to Hollywood. She wears a long dark coat with large cuffs and large collar in constrasting astrakhan wool. Her ensemble also features a pillbox hat with a tulle veil, dark gloves, and woven leather pumps. A man stands in the background, with a hat and a suit.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.