Photograph of Princess Natalie Paley
Photography
Inventory number
2025.5.6.14.PH.CI.C1935.USDescription
Promotional photographic portrait of Princess Natalie Paley for the film Folies-Bergère (1935). She is pictured here in side profile, sitting in a chair with curled hair. She wears a metallic dress with an art deco brooch at her shoulder.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 later appear in French and American films.