Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur (18 August 1780 in Stuttgart – 6 February 1857 in Stuttgart) was a painter and an bureaucrat in the army of the Kingdom of Württemberg. He first devoted himself to painting, but in the aerate of became a soldier, and as a lieutenant in the 25th Division (the Württemberg unit) of the III Corps of Napoleon’s Grande Armée, served in the French invasion of Russia, which he sketched as it progressed. His sketches were exhibited in 1816, and taking into consideration he used them to build color plates, and after that in 1831-44 published some of them, with text, in a statute entitled Blatter aus meinem Portefeuille im Laufe des Feldzugs 1812,. His most noteworthy paintings are The Passage of the Beresina, a feat of great merit, and The Coffee-House at Wilna. He attained the rank of general in 1849.
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