Carl Ernst von Stetten

Carl Ernst von Stetten was born on 7 March 1857 in Augsburg, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, to a wealthy local banking family. He entered the antiquities class at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on 16 October 1876. He later moved to Paris, where he trained in the studio of Jean-Leon Gerome and attended the Academie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre, forming close ties there with fellow Gerome students Gustave Courtois and Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. He kept his own studio in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, until 1913.

He made his Salon debut at the Salon des Artistes Francais in 1884, where his painting La Mort de Cleobis et Biton won a premiere medaille, an award reported to have set off a polemic in part of the French press. He continued to exhibit at the Salon through 1889, including a showing in 1888 later catalogued by Sotheby's as no. 2491. His work also traveled to international exhibitions, including the Internationale Kunstausstellung in Munich in 1888, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, where he won a medal, and shows in Dresden and Berlin in 1894. He also won a medal at the Salon de Paris in 1889.

Carl Ernst von Stetten is deceased. German and French reference sources consistently give his year of death as 1942, but no source located in current research provides a corroborated exact date or place of death.

The clearest documented critical episode is the reaction to his 1884 Salon medal: French Wikipedia records that the award for La Mort de Cleobis et Biton triggered a polemic in part of the press, though no specific writer or publication is named in the available sources. Beyond that episode, the dossier did not surface an exact, attributable critical quotation from a named critic in a major outlet, so none is reproduced here.

No verified public auction price for a work by Carl Ernst von Stetten could be confirmed from available sources as of this writing. Sotheby's has catalogued at least two of his paintings, La Mort de Cleobis et Biton (1884) and a 1888 Salon work associated with the title Italians in Paris, but the accessible catalogue material and secondary discussion of these sales do not disclose a realized price, currency, or exact sale date. Given this, no auction record can be published here; any figure would be a guess rather than a documented fact.

There is no catalogue raisonne for Carl Ernst von Stetten, and no current gallery or estate representation could be identified. Attribution and provenance currently rest on Salon and exposition catalogue numbers, signed inscriptions, and auction-house research such as Sotheby's cataloguing. No museum collection holdings for the artist could be independently confirmed in current research, so this profile does not list any. Because no confirmed public auction price is currently documented, collectors should treat any market claim about this artist with particular caution until a disclosed hammer price surfaces.