Rosaline Bacou (21 May 1923 - 8 February 2013) was a French art historian, specialising in Odilon Redon. She was also inspector general of national museums in charge of the prints and drawings department at the Louvre and curator of the Abbaye Saint-André.
Life.
She was born in Le Pradet to Simone and Paul Bacou, making her granddaughter of Gustave Fayet. She studied art history at the University of Montpellier and in 1949 joined the prints and drawings department at the Louvre, heading it from 1984 until retirement in 1988, reorganising it and making important acquisitions such as a group of women by Antonello da Messina.
She commissioned several exhibitions of French, Italian and Flemish drawings and published works on Redon's work, organising his first retrospective in 1956 and studying the donation by Arï and Suzanne Redon. On Elsa Koeberlé's death in 1950, Bacou continued Koeberlé and her friend Génia Lioubow's work restoring the abbaye Saint-André in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, acquired by her grandfather in 1916. On 8 February 2013 she died at the abbey