Louise Janin (August 29, 1893, Durham, New Hampshire - 1997, Meudon) was an American painter who settled in Paris in 1923.

Demonstrating from early childhood "dispositions for drawing, theater and music",[1] it was in painting that she decided to educate herself.

After attending courses at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco from 1911 to 1914 and William Merritt Chase's last summer class in Carmel-by-the-Sea, she took a long trip through Asia, then made her first canvases inspired by Buddhist, Hindu and Taoist mythologies.

In 1924 the National Museum of Franco-American Cooperation at Château de Blérancourt [3] acquired the canvas entitled Le dragon.

[5] Through the poet and art critic Alexandre Mercereau, she was introduced to two significant artists, František Kupka and Henry Valensi.