When Edm Bouchardon returned to France, he was employed in the royal art workshops at the Grand Trianon, and he sculpted "Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain", which depicted a realistic, unidealized adolescent Cupid throwing an arrow.
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. 
