How did Gustave Arosa encourage Paul Gauguin’s interest in art?

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Self-portrait painting by Paul Gauguin showing the artist with a mustache, yellow halo, and stylized plants against a vivid orange background with green and red fruit. — Paul Gauguin Self-portrait by Paul Gauguin, oil on wood, 1889; in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 79.2 × 51.3 cm.

Gustave Arosa, who served as the legal guardian for Paul Gauguin following the death of the artist's mother, played a pivotal role in sparking Gauguin's interest in art. Arosa encouraged this passion by exposing him to his personal art collection, which featured works by renowned painters such as Camille Corot, Eugène Delacroix, and Jean-François Millet.1