Will you tell us about a work of art or literature with an interesting provenance?

Will you tell us about a work of art or literature with an interesting provenance?
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answer:My favorite is the juxtaposition of the famous painting, The Fall of Icarus and W.H. Auden’s equally famousl poem about it, Musée des Beaux Arts. The large canvas (29” x 44”), which Brueg(h)el may or may not have painted, is hanging in the Musée des Beaux Arts in Brussels. William Carlos Williams also wrote a poem, a less interesting one, about the painting, called Landscaope with the Fall of Icarus I return to this poem and this painting all the time.
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