18th century FRENCH school, workshop of Jean RAOUX Portrait of Philippe de Vendôme, Grand Prior of France, wearing the cross and black cord of the Order of Malta Oil on canvas H.38 cm - W. 31 cm AND Louis XIV period carved and gilded wooden frame The Fabre museum of Montpellier keeps a similar composition (deposit of the Louvre museum), but here the variants are those of the modello kept in London, Clerkendell, museum of the Order of St. John (catalogue of the exhibition Jean Raoux 1777-1734. Un peintre sous la Régence, Montpellier , musée Fabre, November 2009- March 2010 p.168-169).