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Princess Radziwill, member of the Information Section, later member of Section of Social Questions, of League of Nations
Princess Radziwill, member of the Information Section, later member of Section of Social Questions, of League of Nations

Princess Radziwill, member of the Information Section, later member of Section of Social Questions, of League of Nations

League of Nations
,
Geneva, Switzerland

Object Details

Title:
Princess Radziwill, member of the Information Section, later member of Section of Social Questions, of League of Nations
Date:
1927
Artist:
Medium:
Pastel on paper
Dimensions
20 3/8 x 13 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[lower right in graphite]: Violet Oakley / October, 1927;Princess Gabrielle Radziwill (1877–1968) was one of the pioneering women to join the League of Nations Secretariat. Before her service in the Information Section, she served in the Russian Red Cross on the Persian front during World War I. From Lithuania, then newly established, the princess was a member of the former Russian House of Radziwill.

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