Pictures to build
Jigsaw puzzles by art style.
Every picture here is a real painting from The Met's open collection, free to build as a jigsaw puzzle by art style, from Ukiyo-e to Impressionism. Pieces run from 25 up to 600, so you can start light or take your time. Pick one to solve alone, or share the same cut with a friend far away, each showing your own picture over it.
Japanese woodblock prints
Ukiyo-e
Floating-world prints from Edo Japan. Hokusai's waves, Hiroshige's rain, travellers on mountain roads. Flat blocks of colour, confident outlines, and weather you can almost feel.
15 pictures →
17th-century Netherlands
Dutch Golden Age
Lamplit interiors, wind-bitten landscapes and unflinching portraits from the Dutch 1600s. Rembrandt, Hals, Ruisdael. Deep shadow, warm skin, and a single fall of light.
23 pictures →
Light, caught quickly
Impressionism
Gardens, riverbanks and quiet rooms painted in broken, shimmering strokes. Monet, Cassatt, Pissarro, Morisot, Degas. Colour over line, a moment rather than a record.
23 pictures →
After the light
Post-Impressionism
Where colour turns structural and personal. The coiling brushwork of Van Gogh, Gauguin's flat heat, Seurat's dots, Rousseau's dreamed jungles. Feeling built deliberately, mark by mark.
25 pictures →
Quiet arrangements
Still Life
Flowers past their best, fruit and silver and the slow drama of a tabletop, from Dutch pronkstilleven to the hush of a single flower piece. Small worlds, lovingly lit.
7 pictures →
Field, river, weather
European Landscape
Quiet country and changing skies from 19th-century Europe. Corot's silvery groves, Daubigny's riverbanks, the Barbizon hush, a Constable cloud. Land as a mood.
15 pictures →
The Italian 1400s and 1500s
Italian Renaissance
Tempera and oil from Renaissance Italy. Botticelli's clean line, Crivelli's jewelled saints, Bellini's hushed light, Mantegna's hard clarity. Gold grounds, clear colour and faces that have outlasted five centuries.
20 pictures →
The American 1800s
American Painting
Paint from the young United States. Sargent's quick society faces, Eakins' steady gaze, Whistler's grey harmonies, Chase's sunlit rooms, Kensett's still water. Plain light, real people, an easy unhurried air.
21 pictures →
The German and Flemish 1400s and 1500s
Northern Renaissance
Oil and engraving from Germany and the Low Countries. Cranach's slender Venuses and Edens, Dürer's needle-fine prints, Memling's quiet devotion, Holbein's level gaze. Jewelled colour, hard clear line, and a love of the smallest detail.
20 pictures →
Petals, caught in oil
Flowers
Sunflowers, roses, irises and wild bouquets, painted by artists who loved them almost too much. Van Gogh's thick, urgent petals, Renoir's soft roses, Fantin-Latour's quiet arrangements, Redouté's exact botanical studies. Colour for its own sake.
14 pictures →
Ink and colour on silk
Chinese Painting
Mountains and mist, bamboo, a plum branch in snow, a single boat on still water. Ink and soft colour on silk and paper, from the hands of Shen Zhou, Zhao Mengfu, Ni Zan and Wang Hui. Much of the picture is left as open space, so the eye can rest.
13 pictures →
Posters and lithographs of the 1890s
Art Nouveau
Montmartre in the 1890s, when the printed poster became an art form. Toulouse-Lautrec's cabaret nights and the faces that filled them: Aristide Bruant in his red scarf, La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge, Sarah Bernhardt on stage. Steinlen, Eugène Grasset and Ethel Reed print alongside him. Flat colour, whiplash line, and hand-drawn lettering that curls around the picture.
19 pictures →Questions
A few honest answers.
Can I play these paintings as a jigsaw online for free?
Yes. Every painting here is free to build as an online jigsaw, right in your browser. No sign-up, no app, nothing to download. Pick one, choose your piece count, and start.
Where do the paintings come from?
They are all from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access collection, which means they are in the public domain and free for anyone to use. You are building real works from the Met, not stock pictures.
How many pieces should an art jigsaw be?
It depends on the picture. A busy, detailed painting carries a lot of small clues, so it stays easy even at a high count. A calm, flat one is harder, so drop the count. Each style page suggests a good range to start from.
Can I build one with a friend?
Yes. Any painting can be built solo or shared with one person far away on the same cut, with voice and chat. You can even each lay your own picture over the same pieces.