# The Pelkus Gate [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOYEN, Jan van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Black chalk and gray wash, 106 x 165 mm ## Commentary The Pelkus Gate \(Pellekussenpoort, erected 1371\), was a freestanding tower on the towpath of the river Vecht between Utrecht and Muiden on the Zuiderzee. The gate which once belonged to the old Pellekussen family, disappeared by the eighteenth century. It was the subject of perhaps a dozen paintings by Jan van Goyen in which the painter treated the landscape and the buildings rather freely, adding invented motifs to them. ## Related artworks - [A Beach with Fishing Boats \(detail\)]() - [A Beach with Fishing Boats]() - [A View on the Maas near Dordrecht]() - [An Estuary Scene]() - [Beach at Scheveningen]() - [Castle by a River]() - [Country House near the Water]() - [Dune Landscape]() - [Dunes]() - [Estuary Landscape]() - [Farmyard with Haystack]() - [Haarlemmer Meer]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()