Jean-Jacques Le Veau

Jean-Jacques André Le Veau (9 January 1729, Rouen - April 1786, Paris) was a French engraver and designer.

He was born to Jean-Jacques Le Veau, a poor shoemaker, and his wife Marie-Marthe, née Catelin.

In poor health, and too much of a burden for his parents, he was entrusted to the care of the nuns of charity at the Hospice de la Madeleine [fr].

A brief return to Rouen marked the true beginning of his personal career, when he created four engravings of local landscape scenes, signed with his name.

[1] He was apparently buried in a mass grave at the church of Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné, which was demolished in 1831 to make room for the Théâtre du Panthéon.