JOHANNES DECKER FALCKENBOURGUS I.C. BELGA (portrait of Johannes Deckher van Valckenburgh)

Portrait of Johannes Decker van Valckenburgh in an oval surrounded with allegorical figures; two putti hold a ribbon with the name of the portrayed: 'JOHANNES DECKER FALCKENBOURGUS I.C. BELGA'; above the oval personification of Justice and the armed Minerva are crowning the personification of Fama with laurels, at the centre, who is pointing in the direction of the portrayed. On the bottom a cartouche with a Latin inscription: 'Lucem scripta uident facies ut luce perennet, / Hanc pono haec nostri pignus amoris habet. / Pignus amoris habet sic nos vivemus uterq[...] / Tu facie, et scriptis: Pignore amoris ego / Laurent: de Middelbosch Eques / Ausatus Sopascha de Lionis &c'/ M.DC.XXXI'; signed on the left bottom: 'N. vd Horst I.' and right: 'C. Galle fecit'l Engraving on paper, trimmed within plate mark; total: 291 x 184 mm; only state; small repairs on the left margin; Hollstein 282, Le Blanc 43