Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Gaby Deslys as The Charm of Paris in 'New Aladdin' NPG D3613

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Cecil Beaton

This drawing depicts her in her role as the Charm of Paris in The New Aladdin (1906), showing 'how the fair Parisienne walks, sings and dances'. A line-drawing of it was reproduced in The Book of Beauty (1930) where Beaton sang her praises: 'a marvellous creature, of brilliantine and brilliance, and Christmas-tree tinsel...it was impossible to look at anyone else when she was on the stage'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.