Near the Lake

Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers

This new puzzle has it all - fruits, some beautiful flowers and a cute monkey. The game is base on a the painting with the same name by Jean Baptiste Oudry a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. The oil on canvas painting depicts a cute monkey trying to get a piece a fruit from a large ceramic container placed in the middle of a beautiful garden. Pick your difficulty level, click start and put the monkey, the fruit and the beautiful flowers back together and complete today's challenge. Have fun!

River Landscape In 1607

Step into the serene world of Jan Brueghel the Elder's River Landscape, 1607 with this online jigsaw puzzle. This online jigsaw puzzle captures the intricate details of the painting, from the gentle pools of light to the changes in color tonalities that ease the transition into depth. Likely reflecting life along the Scheldt, the main river flowing through the Flemish countryside on its gradual course towards the North Sea, the scene features a large church dominating the distant town on the horizon recognizable as the imposing Cathedral of Our Lady in the port city of Antwerp. Delve into the details of the artwork as you piece together the ferryboat scene, where a boatman carefully hands a baby to its father, while elegant ladies and a child safely watch from ashore. Other ferryboats carrying travelers, horses, and cattle approach the landing, and fishermen and families are seen working around their homes, creating a vibrant and lively atmosphere in the sunlit riverbank in the middle distance.

Weaning the Calves

The scene depicted in today's puzzle is probably located on one of the pasturelands of the Pyrenees where Rosa Bonheur, the author of the painting that this puzzles is based on, took a trip there in 1850. The painting depicts some calves separated from their mother in an improvised pen. If you didn't know, weaning is the process of gradually introducing an young animal or human to what will be its adult diet while withdrawing the supply of its mother's milk. The process takes place only in mammals, the only as they are the only animals that produce milk.

His First Appearance in Public

This new puzzle is based on the oil on wood painting called "His First Appearance in Public" by the Canadian painter Charles Caleb Ward. In this beautiful painting you can se a young boy playing his violin for the first time in front of his friends. So what are you waiting for? Click start and put the painting back together and complete today's puzzle. Have fun!

Boats at Rest

Today's puzzle is based on a painting by Arthur Wesley Dow. It depicts two boats at rest on a river bank around around his native Ipswich, Massachusetts. The painting is made in the style of ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock) prints. So what are you waiting for? Click start and give it a try!

The Japanese Footbridge

Today's puzzle is based on a painting by Claude Monet. In 1899, the artist painted 12 works from a single vantage point, focusing on an arching blue-green Japanese footbridge and the landscape around it. Monet designed and built the landscape that appears in the painting on his property in the rural community of Giverny where he moved in 1883.

Flower Garden and Bungalow

This new colorful puzzle is based on Winslow Homer's 1899 painting called "Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda". This watercolor painting was made during Winslow's many winter visits to tropical locations. The painting depicts a bungalow surrounded by a beautiful flower garden in Bermuda.

Luncheon Still Life

It's time for another art themed puzzle. This new one is called "Luncheon Still Life" and it's based on an oil on canvas painting John F. Francis. Francis was known as a leading painter of luncheon and dessert still lifes. Nearly all of his paintings depict fruits and desserts.

View of Olinda, Brazil

Today we're going back in time and visiting Olinda, Brazil in 1662. This puzzle is based on an oil on canvas painting Frans Jansz Post. It depicts Olinda Cathedral (damaged when the Dutch captured the region from the Portuguese in the 1630s) in the background and a variety of indigenous animals, plants, birds and even insects in the foreground. Put the pieces back together and see how many animals and plants can you spot. Have fun!

The Prize Piggies

In this new puzzle we feature three cute piggies. The puzzle image is based on "The Prize Piggies"(Christmas and New Year card) (1891) by L. Prang & Co. The original picture it depicts five small pigs in a pigsty looking out of a framed barn window. The picture was first exhibited in "Chromo-Mania! The Art of Chromolithography in Boston, 1840-1910.". The Prize Piggies was said to be the most popular picture of 1891.

A String of Horses Outside an Inn

This beautiful and vibrant image of a string of horses outside an inn is based on a painting by Otto Bache, a Danish Realist painter. The scene takes place in the late 1800s in rural Denmark. In the painting you can see a pack of 8 horses being led down a country road while people outside a small in look on or go about their daily routine.

Figures on the Beach

Based on an oil on canvas painting by Auguste Renoir, today's puzzle depicts two female figures at the beach on a sunny summer day. The artist probably painted this scene on the Cote d'Azur in southern France. Next to the two women we can see a small white dog resting, in the distance a small child playing and in the the background some boats sailing on the calm blue waters of the sea.