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After one of the eight overdoors in the nave of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, commissioned by Alexander VII and realized under the direction of Bernini. Bourchardon copied the same group from exactly the same angle in a drawing now in the Louvre, J. Guiffrey and P. Marcel, Inventaire général des Dessins de l'école Française, Adam à Bouchardon, Paris, 1933, no. 521, illustrated under no. 513, p. 90.
Copying Roman baroque monuments was part of the curriculum of the pensionnaires of the Académie de France in Rome. But some of these drawings, rather than being direct copies from the sculptures, were sometimes reworked from already existing copies by older artists still at the Académie such as Bouchardon. A number of similar examples can be found in Trémolières' drawn oeuvre: a signed drawing in a private collection in Paris (J.F. Méjanès, P.C. Trémolières, exhib. cat., Musée de Cholet, 1973, dessin no. 6, pl. XIX) probably copies Bernini's Urban VIII by Bouchardon, now in the Louvre. A copy attributed to Trémolières of Algardi's Leon XI by Bourchardon is in Orléans, Méjanès, op. cit., p. 94.
Copying Roman baroque monuments was part of the curriculum of the pensionnaires of the Académie de France in Rome. But some of these drawings, rather than being direct copies from the sculptures, were sometimes reworked from already existing copies by older artists still at the Académie such as Bouchardon. A number of similar examples can be found in Trémolières' drawn oeuvre: a signed drawing in a private collection in Paris (J.F. Méjanès, P.C. Trémolières, exhib. cat., Musée de Cholet, 1973, dessin no. 6, pl. XIX) probably copies Bernini's Urban VIII by Bouchardon, now in the Louvre. A copy attributed to Trémolières of Algardi's Leon XI by Bourchardon is in Orléans, Méjanès, op. cit., p. 94.