Composite

Until recently, my family had seen no photographs in which my paternal Grandparents, Tatjana and Vytautas, appear together. In the early 1960s, my paternal Aunt Jonė—Dad's twin sister—commissioned a photography studio to merge individual portraits of Tatjana and Vytautas into one composite. The photographer used this image and this one.

The studio also colorized the image, and Jonė's daughter—my Toronto Cousin—reports Jonė was not happy with the result. Jonė apparently thought that the image made it appear Tatjana was wearing a lot of makeup; that's something Tatjana never did. I also think Jonė may have disliked the colorization because it gave Vytautas red hair.

A piece of curved glass covers the composite; that makes the faces (Vytautas's especially) appear more rounded than they are in the original photos.
 
Thanks to my Toronto Cousin for bringing the framed image during her recent visit so I could see it and photograph it.