[2] Next year Spyridon Trikoupis announced the discovery of the statues in the archaeological journal Bullettino dell'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica.

During his visit in Andros in 1841 King Otto of Greece ordered the statue to be moved to the newly established National Museum (then housed in the Temple of Hephaestus, incorrectly called the Theseum) after paying Loukrezis an amount of money.

Although the date roughly matched the year the female sculpture was made (which is a Herculaneum Woman-type), Hermes of Andros however proved to be an older work.

That original statue was thought to have been a Lysippean type, but his sculptor belonged to the school of Praxiteles, as comparison with Hermes and the Infant Dionysus shows;[2] it was thus produced around 360 BC.

It has been described as having all the naturalness, delicacy and grace that is missing from the similar statue Atalante Hermes,[5] which is not Praxitelean but rather has Lysippean characteristics, and is made of Pentelic marble.