Lotus de Païni

Baroness Lotus de Païni (née Elvezia Giulia Maria Gazzotti; 28 November 1862 – 22 July 1953) was an Italian painter, sculptor, writer, and occultist. She also used the names L. E. De Paini, Lotus Gazzotti, and Lotus Péralté.

Early life, family, and education Lotus de Païni was born on 28 November 1862, in Copparo in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and raised in Vallauris in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Her mother Thérèse Guignon was French from Vallauris, and her father Giuseppe Gazzotti was Swiss-born Italian.

She married Baron Nicolas de Païni in c. 1890, and they divorced nine years later.

Career De Païni was a self-taught artist, who liked to make her artwork while traveling. Under the name Lotus Péralté, starting from 1914 she published writings on painting and then on Western esotericism. Her writings and artwork were admired by André Breton, , and .

Her artwork is in museum collections, including at the Guimet Museum in Paris.

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