Help identify the author!
 

Canvas-oil
53H37, 5cm
Year 1860 (Technology Art Consulting)
Pervasive restoration retouching.
Bought in Belgium Gallery OBRI.
On the reverse side painted (such as linseed oil), inscriptions and figures.
Thanks in advance!

if not a secret, how much?
It is possible to lichku.

What is drawn in, there simply is not defined - need a picture in infrared radiation. But on a stretcher have any signs - one on his side, where the labeled Art Consulting. Give them big, perhaps something and read it. And the Belgians, then something about this picture, you say?

sergejnowo, Europe is not it? Judging by stretcher .:D

Purchased for $ 4500
The owner said he bought the work from the castle to the north of France, generally cool muzchina - he travels with his wife to rest all sorts of old castles and buying only what is like combining business with pleasure pozeznym :)
On the stretcher is written School Van Dyck.

For $ 4500 I would have you on a stretcher and the story would have Bunin, for example, small enough to contain small-small handwriting ... Or a piece of "Mtsyri, eh? :)
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)

What is similar, the second signature - M. BABUT. [With the letter YAT at the end]

Hardly. Rather - is the theme servant, once a fashionable artists of the Renaissance.
Work on the modern. For two centuries, canvas does not obvis, no decay of kinks along the bends in the frame and of course along the inner ribs and even the photos can be seen that the film does not pull, was stretched on a frame, this time (look for areas of the canvas threads on nails). Primer Oil-gray and pigment passed through due to poor sizing, ie no middle layer of white chalk (artists of two centuries ago tended to be dismissive of technology). Stretcher modern, early 20 century, etc.
The painting was done professionally, but the author could be anyone.
In my view a free copy.

Super!
As to the ground - in the examination: Dark-gray single-layer soil based on carbon black, and white lead. (as you learned on photo :): confused :)

I am embarrassed nilezhaschee image that can be explored after vskryshki of total entries.

can and authorship where there :)

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Here's another photo caption on the reverse side

Here's another photo caption on the reverse side

I do not think you have to search among the slaves - to the XVII century about them are almost forgotten.
This could be any mythological or biblical story, but it seems to me that the character is similar to the Apostle John, he was portrayed in the form of a handsome young man exalted.
Now that the school of Van Dyck (Blessed is the artist, whose school was preserved for over 200 years), you can compare this work with a self-portrait by Van Dyck himself from the double portrait of Rubens, posture (head thrown back injected eye) and view the model found him quite often.
Rather, I am free copy, Artem rights.

On the stretcher says nothing about the school van Dyck. In reality there is written "van Dyck martyr hovede", which translated from Danish language means "van Dijk, head of the martyr." A kind of sub-frame is the same as in http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=57371, what sergejnowo defined as Danish.
By pose reminiscent of St. Sebastian (Saint Sebastian), it is true, it was decided to depict naked - that Van Dyck, that Titian, and other painters.
Join this opinion. Only add that apparently a copy - the Danish artist.

To generalize, it looks like.
In the mid-19 th century, wrote in an industrial scale for the "divine" explanation of the 17 th century.
In my opinion 60%of the various holy lady with a baby or not, 20%and 20%of the mourners around a little removed from the cross.
95%of those working 19 th century artistic value does not represent. They are for the most part are copies, in explanation or stylistic imitation. Works in poor preservation, as a rule, does not cost anything. Just works of this period in good condition in Europe a lot. At Ebee meter work well preserved and good coloring traded in the 1000 - 3000 euros. Conversation course for Kopisty or imitated without a name. Inscriptions on the reverse side, especially on a stretcher, as a rule mean nothing. Antique dealers in Europe are "hints" do not take seriously, at Ebee this means as a rule, outright deception.

Another appendix. For the curious. With one of the sites.
Sold: $ 1,621.50
Not signed picture of "the cherub's face", oil on wood, on the reverse side "ps.re. ... Antoin Van Dyck, Dyck, ... 1630. Also attached to the back of the little superscript piece of paper, ink inscription reads in part:" my dear friend, Charles B. .... this genuine work by Anthony Van Dyke from ........... October 1904. Size - 5-5/8 "x 7-5/8", with the Dutch frame under glass,: 13-1/4 "x 15-1/4". Remains label Beers Brothers Broadway, NY Picture Frames on the back ..

vall, since I went into detail, I want to clarify.
The inscription on the stretcher, in theory, can be done when duplicating the canvas. However, a professional restorer, as a rule, "transfer" written on the old 1:1 on a new canvas, canvas, or draw up a label /certificate with a detailed description of all the "notes" on the old canvas.
Then I realized, canvas home.
Owners of galleries and auction houses in Europe like confuses the buyer.
For example, in describing the work safely, with the first sentence is written: Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), a plot of such a + details biography Rubens. And then, after a point, in an abbreviated form of 3-4 letters of the words "follower" or "wannabe". By nechayki easy, without ulterior motive to buy this masterpiece. And not expensive.
All known in comparison. Here's an example relevant work with Ebeya: http://cgi.ebay.de/Barock-Italien-w-...item1e5a1bb866
This work is much more similar to Antony Van Dyck than yours. The seller wrote that for 400 euros will give work immediately.