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Le Vasseur, Jean Charles, 1734-1816

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Personal name headingLe Vasseur, Jean Charles, 1734-1816
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Variant(s)Vasseur, Jean Charles le, 1734-1816
Le Vasseur, 1734-1816
Le Vasseur, C., 1734-1816
Levasseur, Jean Charles, 1734-1816
Other standard no.56880224
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Addressrue des Maçons no.12 rue des Mathurins chez M. Daullé rue Gillecoeur [Gît-le-Coeur] Paris France
Birth date17341021
Death date18161129
Place of birthAbbeville (France)
Place of deathParis (France)
Field of activityEngraving Illustration of books
AffiliationAcadémie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Profession or occupationEngravers Illustrators
Found inMaterials for Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palaestine, et de la Basse Aegypte, 1799-1800: v. 2, plate 34 (le Vasseur)
Thieme-Becker (Le Vasseur (Levasseur), Jean Charles; engraver; b. 1734 in Abbeville; d. 1816 in Paris)
Fenouillot de Falbaire, Charles-Georges. L'honnête criminel, ou L'amour filial, 1768: plate (C. le Vasseur sculp.)
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online, Apr. 24, 2015 (Le Vasseur, Jean Charles; variant: Levasseur, Jean Charles; copper engraver; graphic artist; born Abbeville, 1734.10.21, died Paris 1816.11.29; exhibited in the Salon of the Académie royale, 1769; admitted as member in 1771; also member of the Akademie, Vienna and the Accademia di S. Luca, Rome; named "Graveur du roi," 1777
Delignières, E. "Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre gravé de Jean-Charles Le Vasseur, d'Abbeville." In Memoires de la Société d'émulation historique et littéraire d'Abbeville, ser. 2, t. 10 (1861-1865): ptie. 2, pages 1-85, via HathiTrust, Apr. 24, 2015: page 5 (Le Vasseur (Jean-Charles), born Abbeville, Oct. 11, 1734) page 9 (died Nov. 29 (not Nov. 30), 1816) page 11 (engraved work consists of 166 prints, about half of which are large engravings or etchings) passim (signature often transcribed as C. Le Vasseur sculps.)
ULAN, Apr. 24, 2015 (Levasseur, Jean Charles (French painter, 1734-1816); artist, draftsman, painter, printmaker)
Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF autorités, Apr. 24, 2015 (Le Vasseur, Jean-Charles (1734-1816), born 1734-10-21, Abbeville (Somme), died 1816-11-29, Paris (France); burnin engraver, publisher of prints; elected to the Academy in 1771; addresses in Paris: Rue des Maçons no.12; Rue des Mathurins; Chez M. Daullé rue Gillecoeur [Gît-le-Coeur])