The painting "Head of John"
 

Help determine the time of writing, the artist, school, the cost of this painting.

1. Author - unknown.
2. Material and manufacturing technology - oil on canvas.
3. Size (horizontal x vertical for painting) - 95h80.
4. Time of creation - in my opinion dilettante 18 - 19 century.
5. Signatures - no.
6. Condition - see photo.

Popal to the owners of somewhere in the late 1940's or Closed in the early 50's.
I think from some of the castle and church of eastern Poland and western Ukraine.

And why do you think that?

According to the plot.

And what time of execution of John the Baptist is shown, do you think?
You, I realized that John you mean? Baptist or Baptist?

Baptist, for the dance of Salome

Then this is the moment when the squire (spekulator *) have already cut off his head and carries it on a platter of the prison to give it to Salome.
It?
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*spekulator -" executioner, an eavesdropper, TSerk. Through Art.-slav. spekoulator.

Anatoly parachute
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I wrote:

Judging by the fact that the head is in the hands of a young man (who may not be squire (spekulatorom)
  because it can not be the main hero of the picture is a priori, then it probably about another myth,
heroes whom David and the severed head of Goliath.
Look in my diary entitled "David and Goliath" in the theme "Legends and Myths."
On the canvases of Caravaggio, Guido Reni, Ilya Glazunov's paintings depicted the hero of your
with the head of the fallen giant.

Maybe he's right.

Okay, subject matter second.
Exactly? Some very smooth painting. And the flip side, even at 19. not drawn.
Do not print it on canvas?

In the letter correctly stated that John does not fit. Holofernes - also, for the same reasons (and then, usually the head of Holofernes is a maid), so that as the hapless owner of Galway is a Goliath.

imho you pravy.Tam even see the gaps.

Here are three Davidv (and the same goals Gliafa), the first two - Caravaggio, the third - Guido Reni.

No part of the story.

No, his head should be large.

Cat, but I managed to register on the site and wait for the revitalization of the moderators to answer you as my answer appeared already on the forum.
I agree about the smoothness of texture, but we must not forget that this still picture, which may not convey the texture and texture. Perhaps it is a copy. But now the question is - who is the author, I understand?
I looked through my folder with reproductions of David and Goliath-like is not found. If I find something interesting, I will here!
You, too, good luck searching!

If this is a reproduction, the attribution would have applied interest. : D