Panorama near Arnhem with the Rhine Gate

The gate on the left of this view is the Rijnpoort, the Rhine Gate, which opened Arnhem to the side facing the river. It no longer exists. The gate was pulled down in 1827, and its site is now a crossroads where the Rijnstraat meets the Oude Oeverstraat. Past it, Joris van der Haagen opens the view onto the floodplains of the Lower Rhine.

He painted it in 1649 as the companion to another panorama near Arnhem, and the two have shared a long journey. After years in the collection of Prince William V, both were seized by the French in 1795 and taken to Paris, where they belonged to the Musée Napoléon, as the Louvre was then called, until their return in 1815. The painting now belongs to the Mauritshuis and hangs in the Gallery Prince Willem V in The Hague.