Apolline Lacroix

{{Short description|French actress}}

Apolline Lacroix (née Biffe; 1805–1896) was a French actress who married Paul Lacroix, the curator of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris, on May 7, 1834. She also lived with Paul Lacroix's collaborator, art collector Théophile Thoré-Bürger, for more than a decade. Their affair only ended with his death in 1869.{{cite journal | last1 = Charreire | first1 = Magali | year =2016| title = Vermeer à l'Arsenal : la bibliothèque-musée de Paul Lacroix | journal = Littératures | volume =75 | issue = 75 | pages = 45–56| language = fr| url = https://journals.openedition.org/litteratures/668#text| doi =10.4000/litteratures.668 | trans-title =Vermeer at the Arsenal: Paul Lacroix's library-museum | doi-access = free}}

On Thoré-Bürger's death, she inherited his valuable art collection, which included paintings by Vermeer and The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius that Thoré-Bürger had found in Brussels 200 years after its creation. Subsequently, much of the collection was sold off.{{cite journal | last1 = Jowell| first1 = Frances Suzman |year =2003| title = Thoré-Bürger's Art Collection: "A Rather Unusual Gallery of Bric-à-Brac | journal = Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art | volume =30 | issue =1/2 | pages =54 –119 (61, 68)| doi = 10.2307/3780951 | jstor =3780951 }}{{cite journal | last1 = Jowell | first1 = Frances Suzman |year =2001| title = From Thoré to Bürger: The image of Dutch art before and after the Musées de la Hollande | journal = Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum | volume = 49| issue =1 | pages = 43–60 | jstor =40383198 }}