Jean-Charles Le Vasseur

Jean-Charles Le Vasseur (21 October 1734, Abbeville - 29 November 1816, Paris) was a French engraver and printmaker.

At the age of nineteen, he studied engraving with Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet and Jean Daullé, successively.

The following year, he was formally received at the Académie royale for "Diane et Endymion", after a work by Charles André van Loo.

He avoided becoming involved in any intrigues, but was always prepared to provide a safe haven for church officials during the Revolution; an activity that cost him much of his considerable fortune.

A few are in the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States; at the National Gallery of Art and the De Young Museum in San Francisco.