Exhibit: 'American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity'

'American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity'
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Marrying Well
Consuelo Vanderbilt, seen above in a 1906 portrait painted by Giovanni Boldini, married an English aristocrat and became the Duchess of Marlborough. Wealthy Americans who married titled European men were known as "penny princesses."

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