Photograph of Princess Natalie PALEY
Photography
Inventory number
2025.5.6.9.PH.CI.C1934.GBDescription
Publicity portrait of Princess Natlie PALEY in costume from the film "The Private Life of Don Juan" (1934) by Alexander KORDA. She wears a Spanish style dress with a velvet boddice featuring a scoop neckline of ruched silk, with pom poms embellishing the epaulettes, ribbing, sleeves and cuffs. The dress features a large, full skirt in floral lace layered with tulle. She gazes directly at the camera, posed on a carved baroque sofa.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.
Material
Analog photographyOrigin
circa 1934 London, United KingdomDimensions
Length : 21.9 cmHeight : 25 cm