These twin cameos are said to be of Georges Tonnellier and his wife, but her endearingly homely profile and unmanageable hair do not match the image in a more glamorously sedate cameo inscribed as representing Mme Blanche Tonnellier (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore). The vaporous colorism, with bluish intonations, characterizes French fin-de-siècle cameos in general and Tonnellier’s in particular.
