Identification structure with a portrait image of a holder, the identification structure having: - a substrate (8,50), - a laser sensitive layer (11,55) and - a lens array (12,56) overlying the laser sensitive layer (11,55), the substrate (8,50) comprising a printed pattern (9,54), the laser sensitive layer comprising a laser engraved image pattern (15, 15'; 16, 16'), wherein the laser engraved image pattern (15, 15'; 16, 16') forms a three dimensional portrait image (A,B) of the holder and the printed pattern (9,54) forms a two-dimensional colour pattern of the portrait image of the holder, wherein in a single perpendicular viewing position of the substrate the two-dimensional colour pattern and the three-dimensional portrait image (A,B) are adapted to be simultaneously observed in a superimposed manner as a three-dimensional colour portrait, and wherein the laser engraved image pattern (15,15';16, 16') is formed of at least two portrait images (A,B), at different angles, each image being formed of image lines (a1,an;b1,bn), and wherein the image lines of the at least two portrait images are interlaced and grouped into sets (a1,b1),...,(an, bn) of image lines that are located below respective cylindrical lenses (13, 14) of the lens array (12,56) such that one laser engraved portrait image is imaged into a right eye of an observer and the other laser engraved portrait image is imaged into a left eye of the observer, the colour pattern corresponding to the colour image of the holder being imaged by the lenses (13, 14) into both eyes (6,7) of the observer characterised in that the laser sensitive layer (11,55) and the lens array ( 12,56) form an integral laser image layer (10,55) having at least in the areas of the lenses a transparent window (25,68), the laser image layer (10,55) being hingingly connected to the substrate (8,50), the three- dimensional laser engraved portrait (A,B) being situated in the transparent window, the three-dimensional image (A,B) and the colour pattern being observable separately by hinging the laser image layer (10,55) away from the substrate (8,50) and in combination by hinging the laser image layer (10,55) against the substrate (8,50) such that the transparent window (25,68) and the colour pattern are superimposed. - a substrate (8,50), - a laser sensitive layer (11,55) and - a lens array (12,56) overlying the laser sensitive layer (11,55), the substrate (8,50) comprising a printed pattern (9,54), the laser sensitive layer comprising a laser engraved image pattern (15, 15'; 16, 16'), wherein the laser engraved image pattern (15, 15'; 16, 16') forms a three dimensional portrait image (A,B) of the holder and the printed pattern (9,54) forms a two-dimensional colour pattern of the portrait image of the holder, wherein in a single perpendicular viewing position of the substrate the two-dimensional colour pattern and the three-dimensional portrait image (A,B) are adapted to be simultaneously observed in a superimposed manner as a three-dimensional colour portrait, and wherein the laser engraved image pattern (15,15';16, 16') is formed of at least two portrait images (A,B), at different angles, each image being formed of image lines (a1,an;b1,bn), and wherein the image lines of the at least two portrait images are interlaced and grouped into sets (a1,b1),...,(an, bn) of image lines that are located below respective cylindrical lenses (13, 14) of the lens array (12,56) such that one laser engraved portrait image is imaged into a right eye of an observer and the other laser engraved portrait image is imaged into a left eye of the observer, the colour pattern corresponding to the colour image of the holder being imaged by the lenses (13, 14) into both eyes (6,7) of the observer characterised in that the laser sensitive layer (11,55) and the lens array ( 12,56) form an integral laser image layer (10,55) having at least in the areas of the lenses a transparent window (25,68), the laser image layer (10,55) being hingingly connected to the substrate (8,50), the three- dimensional laser engraved portrait (A,B) being situated in the transparent window, the three-dimensional image (A,B) and the colour pattern being observable separately by hinging the laser image layer (10,55) away from the substrate (8,50) and in combination by hinging the laser image layer (10,55) against the substrate (8,50) such that the transparent window (25,68) and the colour pattern are superimposed.