Jean Jacques Le Veau - View of the Gilbrug outside Utrecht on the white women's gate

Jean-Jacques Le Veau was a French draftsman and engraver. Around 1746 he became the student of Jean-Baptiste Descamps, author of The Lives of the Flemish, German and Dutch Painters, at the free drawing school of the city of Rouen. In 1748, through Descamps' connections, he apprenticed with a master silver engraver named Couvel, from whom he learned metalworking.

Le Veau made many engravings that can be found in the collections of many museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
image: a beautiful copper engraving of a lively scene drawn by Justus Versteegh (ca.1734-1819)