Hermes (Museo Pio-Clementino)

Today the sculpture is considered (in the most recent Helbig[2]) to be a Hadrianic copy (early second century AD) of a bronze by Praxiteles or one of his school.

At 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, the statue shows a nude young man with a chlamys on his shoulder and left forearm.

[4] The sculpture was bought for Pope Paul III in 1543, when a thousand ducats were paid to "Nicolaus de Palis for a very beautiful marble statue... which His Holiness has sent to be placed in the Belvedere garden".

[8] A marble copy was bought by Peter the Great[9] and casts can also be found in art academies such as those of Milan and Berlin.

[10] Peter Paul Rubens studied the sculpture during his stay in Rome in the early 17th century and praised its beauty and proportions.