Carl Ernst von Stetten was a Franco-German portrait and genre painter who worked in France.

Carl Ernst von Stetten came from the wealthy Stetten banking family. He began his studies on October 16, 1876 in the class of antiquities at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich. He then left for Paris in the 1880s to study under Jean-Léon Gérôme. He attended the Académie Julian with Gustave Boulanger, Gustave Courtois, Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. He lived for some time in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, where he ran his own studio until 1913.

He won a medal at the Salon de Paris in 1889 and at the Chicago exhibition in 1893