The 16 square puzzle using the fine painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 25 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.

The 25 square puzzle using the fine painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 36 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.

The 36 square puzzle using the fine painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 49 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.

The 49 square puzzle using using the fine painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 64 square puzzle with the same image. To go there directly, click the red square.

The 64 square puzzle using using the fine painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. This puzzle is getting harder. Congratulations if you succeed. The applet permits up to a ten square puzzle. If there is any interest in my listing a puzzle of greater difficulty, drop me a line and I'll add it in. Information about the artist can be found below.

The image is a portion of a splendid painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). The original, entitled "The Slave Market in Rome", painted c. 1884, an oil on canvas, is in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. The original full image as I saw it can be seen here on the superb CFGA site. It is also available, in similar quality, on many other WWW sites. For reasons of which I am not aware, the image on the Hermitage site does not match the quality of the image displayed on other sites. There must be a good reason why that is so.

It is difficult, at times, to select which images to feature on these pages. I have tried to avoid images which offend. But if this image, in its subject matter, offends you, do please just move on to another page.

This is the third image on site of Jean-Léon Gérôme's work. He painted for a great many years and was prolific as an artist. Re the first of his images on this site, I provided some background data, WWW sources to image archives of his work, a link to a fine biography, and I direct you to that page ~ at the bottom of the page. My purpose is not to become a definitive source of data on anything. But I do like to provide enough information to intrigue the visitor & perhaps inspire him or her to do their own research on the particular subject.

You may like to look at the image portion I have used without the distraction of the puzzle. So here it is.

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The java applet that runs the puzzle is courtesy of Axel Fontaine, who lived just south of the city of Brussels in Belgium. Axel invited free use of his fine applet which you can, I hope, download here. Axel, we thank you!