His copy arrived in France in 1732, and was greatly admired, and aided the transition of French sculpture toward neoclassicism.

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.

It was featured, along with a fine engraving of the fountain, in the article on classical sculpture by Jacques-François Blondel in the French Encyclopédie of 1765.

[5] However, it also drew considerable criticism, the colossal sculptural work on a narrow street provided only a tiny trickle of water.

There isn't a single public place in the vast faubourg Saint-Germain; that makes my blood boil.

The subjects and themes were chosen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and passed through an elaborate process of critiques before approval, which involved the King himself.

His drawings, made with sanguine or reddish chalk, were originally used to make a series of smaller ceramic sculptures of Parisian characters, such as street vendors (see gallery).