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Paul Gauguin spent his early childhood in Peru

AI-generated reconstruction of a mother and young boy in a Lima courtyard, 1850s; not a verified portrait of Gauguin or his family.
J. Prendergas, watercolor reproduction of Lima Cathedral and Plaza Mayor, c. 1850. Public Domain Mark 1.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lima-c1850-Prendergas.jpg. Opened and visually checked 2026-10-28.
Paul Gauguin, *Self-Portrait* (1889), National Gallery of Art collection, faithful public-domain reproduction. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gauguin,_Self-Portrait_(4985341920).jpg. Reused from fact 2325. This is a later portrait, not a childhood image.

AI-generated reconstruction of a mother and young boy in a Lima courtyard, 1850s; not a verified portrait of Gauguin or his family.

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Paul Gauguin spent part of his early childhood in Lima, Peru. His family moved there from France in 1851 and returned to France in 1855. So it is more precise to say he spent several formative childhood years in Peru, not his entire childhood there.