Keywords: Charles Georges Spitz - Tahitian woman.jpg circa 1888 photograph place of discovery object history exhibition history credit line The moiré fringing is an artefact of the scan not the image The photograph is often reproduced as an image of Paul Gauguin's young vahine Teha'amana the claim first made by Jean Loize p 24 However Danielsson notes Loize offers no evidence and that the photograph had appeared in other publications previously without being ascribed to Teha'amana p 342 n 57 The other candidate for a photograph of Teha'amana is a photo attached to a page in Gauguin's original manuscript for his travelogue Noa Noa but that bears no resemblance to his portrait of Teha'amana Merahi metua no Tehamana accession number place of creation Scan from cite book Paul Gauguin Fondation Beyeler Hatje Cantz 208 978-3775739597 <gallery> File Gauguin Album Noa Noa 31 jpg Noa Noa manuscript page File Paul Gauguin - The Ancestors of Tehamana OR Tehamana Has Many Parents Merahi metua no Tehamana - Google Art Project jpg Portait of Teha'amana </gallery> Loize Jean Les amitiés du peintre Georges Daniel de Monfreid et ses reliques de Gauguin Paris 1951 cite book Danielsson Bengt Gauguin à Tahiti et aux îles Marquises 1975 Agora 2-266-02727-1 PD-old-70-1923 Uploaded with UploadWizard Photographs by Charles Georges Spitz |