Landscape with the fall of Icarus

This is a common thing: museums, as you understand, are not too eager to accept reattributions that lower the "value" of the work. And they are in no hurry to make corrections to the plates. Just remember the recent disputes turning into fights over Bosch`s paintings (the authorship of a number of works, including such famous works as "The Stone of Folly" from the Prado and Ghent`s "The Carrying of Krset", have been questioned). In Kiev Museum of Russian Art up to this day on the portrait of the Infanta Margarita hangs a plate with the name of Velazquez (even in the summer hung exactly), although it is - at best - his son-in-law Del Maso, and they know it (I asked the guide). As for The Fall of Icarus, the last serious study in 2011 was done by Dominique Allard and Christine Currie. Under the layer of paintings they found a drawing that only a copyist could have needed (in addition, this drawing is very weak and cannot, according to these researchers, belong not only to Bruegel the Elder, but also to Pierre Bruegel the Younger). Research details: ceroart.revues.org/2953