Although Mlle. Henri was actually the mistress of Gauguin’s patron and pupil, Meyer de Haan, by whom she bore an illegitimate child, Gauguin pursued her unsuccessfully. Mlle. Henri claims to have rebuffed Gauguin because he was married. See Chásse, Gauguin sans Légendes (Paris: Les Editions du Temps, 1965), p. 37.