. . In 1953 David van Buuren bought the version on wood of " The Fall of Icarus ", by P.Bruegel the Elder. (The version on canvas belongs to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels), and was authenticated by greatest experts of the time. Scientific research has greatly improved and 45 years later, a dendochronologic analysis set the date at 1583. F. Lechien-Durant, curator of the museum, is studying with other specialists the underlying drawing in order to assign the work to P. Breughel II. Both versions would be copies of an original now lost. This picture is based on Ovid's myth and serves as a pretext For a shimmering impressionnist Landscape.			.
		P. Bruegel the Elder " The Fall of Icarus ", tempera and oil painting on canvas, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels.Both versions are distinguished by two iconografical details : Dedalus does not appear in the canvas version, with a setting sun on the horizon, while the sun is as its zenith on the wood version.
	Circle of P.Bruegel the Elder " The Fall of Icarus ", around 1590-95, oil on wood, 63x90 cm .