Claim: When Edmé Bouchardon returned to France, he was employed in the royal art workshops at the Palace of Versailles, then he sculpted "Cupid Fashioning a Bow out of the Club of Hercules", which depicted a realistic, unidealized adolescent Cupid in a natural posture.
Evidence: On his return to France, he was employed in the royal art workshops at the Palace of Versailles, Working alongside his two brothers, he made statues for the Gardens of Versailles, including the statue of Proteus in the Basin of Neptune. Bouchardon sculpted "Cupid Fashioning a Bow out of the Club of Hercules", now in the Louvre, for the Gardens of Versailles. It depicted a realistic, unidealized adolescent Cupid in a natural posture, which was completely in contrast with the classical ideals.