Portrait of Petrus Hogerbeets

Bust to the right of the physician and poet Petrus Hogerbeets in an oval frame with a Latin border text containing information about the sitter. On the left, Apollo as Apollo Medicus stands on a console beside a column with a snake. He holds a harp. At his right foot, a crow that should have watched over Coronis. On the right, Aesculapius stands beside a rooster on a console. He holds an esculap staff. Above the frame, medical instruments and books. Top left, Pegasus causing the Hippocrene to spring forth. Top right, the young Aesculapius with the centaur Chiron, who raised him. Between these scenes, a Latin text with information about the sitter. Bottom left, a putto with a laurel wreath, a palm branch, and a snake biting its own tail as a symbol of eternity. Bottom right, a putto on a skull blowing bubbles as a vanitas symbol. Between the putti, an eight-line Latin text.