The Eiffel Tower: Art Puzzle on iPhone

The Eiffel Tower draws your eye upward, but this image also rewards looking through it. Beneath the broad lower arch, a distant building sits inside the tower’s outline like a picture within a picture.

Dark ironwork rises against a sky that shifts from warm yellow near the horizon to pale blue above. The open sky makes the tower’s dense web of diagonals especially striking.

ArtFall’s catalog credits The Eiffel Tower to William Henry Goodyear and dates the image to 1900. Goodyear was an art and architectural historian and the Brooklyn Museum’s first curator of fine arts. [Brooklyn Museum Archives biography](https://archives.brooklynmuseum.org/repositories/2/resources/77).

The museum’s archive records that Goodyear traveled to the Paris Exposition in 1900 with photographer Joseph Hawkes to document its sights. That work provides context for his interest in architectural images; ArtFall’s selected creator credit remains William Henry Goodyear. [Goodyear collection history](https://archives.brooklynmuseum.org/repositories/2/resources/77).

Start at the lower arch and trace the tower’s sides as they narrow toward the top. The horizontal platforms interrupt that upward movement, giving the tall composition a series of visual resting points.

Then examine the spaces between the iron supports. Small triangles repeat throughout the structure, while the larger opening at its base reveals the distant architecture and garden axis. Trees and low foreground sculptures spread outward beneath the tower’s steep vertical rise.

In the Architectural Wonders pack, this image offers recognizable details at several scales: the complete silhouette, the broad arch, and the tiny crossings of the latticework. As you solve, watch for where a horizontal platform meets the sloping supports.

The framed building beneath the arch is another detail worth noticing as the image emerges. It gives the lower part of the picture its own focal point, beyond the familiar tower above.

To explore it on iPhone, [download ArtFall from the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/artfall-block-puzzle-reveal/id6758022460), then open [Architectural Wonders](artfall://pack/architecture).

Catalog reviewed October 12, 2026: The Eiffel Tower lists William Henry Goodyear as creator, 1900 as the year, and Public Domain as the license. Its listed source is the Wikimedia Commons file [Eiffel_Tower_1900.jpg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eiffel_Tower_1900.jpg).

These are the selected ArtFall catalog fields. The Brooklyn Museum references above provide historical context for Goodyear’s work.