Children’s Games by Pieter Bruegel – 2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle (Pomegranate)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted this town square in 1560 and packed more than two hundred children into it: hoops rolling, leapfrog, piggyback, a barrel being ridden, knucklebones thrown in the dust, blind man's buff, a swarm of them clambering over a red fence, and more wading in the stream at the top left. The buildings are pale stone and red brick; nearly everything else is the warm ochre of bare ground.
That ground is the difficulty: a vast field of near-identical dusty brown with the action scattered across it in small clumps, so the way through is outward from the figures rather than inward from the edges.
Old master painting with muted earthy tones throughout, hundreds of tiny figures engaged in various activities, and similar brown-beige colour palette across the entire scene.
