The favorite - J.J Gaspard Starck (1814-1884)

Julius Josephus Gaspard Starck (BASTOGNE 1814-1884 SCHAERBEEK)
Favorite
signed 'J. Starck '(lower right)
oil on canvas
109cm x 92 cm. (43 x 36 ¼ in.) Out of frame
138cm x 123cm (54.33 x 48.42 in.) With Frame

Origin:
Sale Paris from 11/12/1986 for 98000 FRF
Spaanooink, Leiden, The Netherlands
Arita Joyeros Anticuarios, Buenos Aires (according to a label on the back of the frame).
Former Safra collection (according to the current owner).

Starck Belgian painter was born in Bastogne in 1814, he was a pupil of Navez and Horace Vernet, the museum of Brussels keeps him the work entitled
"the old cafe of the Kasba in Algiers"