Jean Monier

Monier's father also named Jean was a glass painter and early mentor.

According to his earliest biographer, Jean Bernier, Monier executed for Queen Marie de Medici a copy the Virgin of the Green Cushion by Andrea Solari, which she gave to the Convent of the Cordeliers as a replacement for the original that she had accepted as a gift from the nuns.

In 1623 Monier returned to France, and performed some additional work for Queen Marie.

Bernier also credits him with the discovery of a Holy Family by Raphael that had laid forgotten, gathering dust, in an attic of the Château de Blois.

The painting rediscovered by Mosnier has been identified by Jan Sammer as The Holy Family of Francis I, Louvre inv.