Portrait of Gauguin´s mother.

Another example on how Gauguin, repeatedly use photographs in his paintings.

One of Gauguin's few early memories of his mother (Alina Maria Chazal) was of her wearing the traditional costume of Lima, one eye peeping from behind her manteau, the mysterious one-eye veil that all women in Lima went out in. [...] He was always drawn to women with a 'traditional' look. This must have been the first of the colourful female costumes that were to haunt his imagination.
Did you know that Gauguin was born in Paris, France, to journalist Clovis Gauguin and Alina Maria Chazal (Peruvian), daughter of the proto-socialist leader Flora Tristan, a feminist precursor whose father was part of an influential Peruvian family?
As a matter of fact, he was half Peruvian/French origin--