FRENCH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY Portrait of Charles de la Porte (1602-1664), Duc de la Meilleraye, in armour oil on canvas, unframed 52.1 x 41 cm. De la Porte was a French nobleman and talented general, who was awarded the important military distinction Maréchal de France for his capture of the town Hesdin in 1639 under the reign of King Louis XIII.