The 16 square puzzle using the fine painting by Dutch artist Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. 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 Dutch artist Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. 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 Dutch artist Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. 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 Dutch artist Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 64 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.

The 64 square puzzle using using the fine painting by Dutch artist Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. 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 Winter Landscape by Dutch artist Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803-1862), painted in 1838. You may see the splendid original full image here on the superb Rijksmuseum site. However you can view the work best, 'unadorned' if you will, here. The bare trees in Koekkoek's painting are a joy to behold but they are scarcely visible in the image portion I have selected for this page. The work is an oil on canvas and is 62 x 75 cm in size. More of the artist's work can be seen via this page but the data available is quite limited, alas. 

I was not, in fact, able to find out very much about the artist in the time I spent on the WWW. I learn that he is considered to be the most important Dutch painter of the Romantic period. He was born on Oct. 11, 1803 in Middelburg, a Dutch town near the North Sea coast, & was the oldest son of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, a noted artist who specialised in marine painting. The artist initially studied under his father and then at the Academy in Amsterdam. He travelled round Germany & Belgium, & developed a detailed meticulous style that drew inspiration from the beauty of the landscapes, most particularly the forests and mountains. He founded, in 1841, his own art academy in the German town of Kleve, just across the border in Germany, where a museum devoted to the artist can today be found. There is an image of the museum building here. The artist became successful & very famous in his lifetime & his work was even commissioned by royalty including Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. The artist died in Kleve on Apl. 5, 1862. The image portion used on this page can be seen here.

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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!